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On 1/21/20 9:51 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> 
> And now, you could change the type of the components to Point to Integer, remove the type-casts, and recompile the package Example **without having to recompile dependent packages** because they are dependent only on the visible portion of the package.

Most, if not all, compilers will require you to recompile clients of the package 
because they use the full type declaration for allocating space for objects of 
the private type.

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