Varrickmana

I was wondering how many people use multiple sorce files in their programs, or if most people just stick with one...

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DaWei

If you have a project of any size at all, you'll have many source files. This isn't a question you would even think about asking in a real-world situation, particularly when larger projects are written by teams. Ever hear of CVS?

Even on a small, personal project you should have a source file for each functionally different area, break one up to prevent it from being too long (quicker compilation), or perhaps, as some like, to have one file per function.

Can you imagine recompiling thousands of lines of code when you change one line? Nahhhhhhhhh.

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Ooble

Depends on how big the program is. If there's too much to handle in one source file, split it up.

EDIT: DaWei beat me to it. Meh.

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Varrickmana

DaWei, why do you build me up, just to tear me down, baby? lol

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msk420

Your sounding a little gay "baby"... Get a life and stop hitting on DaWei

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jayme

Try not to call people gay on these forums. No matter what the argument is about, the person calling the other "gay", usually makes themselves look stupid. Everyone knows anyone calling someone gay really is gay themselves (that's a joke).

Ontopic: The most source files I've used in one program was 6. If you consider header files "source", then the most I've used was 12.

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Jimbo

"Takes one to know one" kinda thing, eh? :p

DaWei

Just read the post, and think for yourself. If there's something there to learn, fine. If not, sorry. It could be you just never thought of things that way, before. I'm not here to pat butts and hand out binkys.

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Game_Ender

Maybe I am too anal and OO minded, but I don't write procedural C++ programs. So I have one header file and one source file per class. For really small classes, about ten to twenty lines, that are just utility classes related to a larger class I will include them with that classes sources. It is quite hard to follow someones code if they haphazardly group classes in source files. Now of course C is a whole other story.

Prm753

Since none of my projects has gone over 5000 lines, I generally stick with 1 or 2 (at the most) source files. :p

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