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M2 Style

    28-Jul-88 06:49:38
Sb: #3267-M2 Style
Fm: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
To: Erv Thompson 70567,523
I think good taste dictates that a module initialize itself with the minimal structures necessary to guarantee that all exported procedures will run appropriately, and then have a TweakMe procedure so that users can change colors, positions, etc. One problem the author of Benchmark has (had?) is that if the application programmer uses any portion of a module, the compiler imports _all_ of that module's code. (I found that out _right_ after I'd paid for it, isn't that amazing!) Consequently the modules must be kept teeny, which means breaking procedures and declarations into separate modules. Of course, I only have the beta version available, so who knows what hath been wrought since September 1987?