Re: Panda Bears will die, Sloths will live on

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:34 -0500, Timothy Baldridge wrote:

> > > int function(int a){
> > >  int b;
> > >  #include "other_file.h"
> > >  return a + b;
> > > }
> > >
> > > // other_file.h
> > > b = 42;

> Yes that does work, never mind that that enables all sorts of
> atrocities, and in general this pattern of programming should be
> avoided.

Not necessarily, it is used a lot in image processing libraries
to separate huge matrices from source code files. It is quite
similar to the use of loadfile() in Lua.