>>> And the data hiding is a HUGE productivity improvement on the PIC.
>>>
>> Why would that be?
>
>Imagine working on a 10,000 line PIC project and having to make sure
>that every local symbol in each little routine is unique accross the
>whole project.  That's difficult enough if writing the whole thing
>from scratch. In reality, some chunks are going to come from previous
>projects, and they will can't have local symbols with the same name
>as any other local symbol either, even though the imported code may
>have been written years earlier.

For this reason I do prefix all the symbols with their module name - if
nothing else than that I can identify the correct one in the debugger. It
also tends to group them when selecting the symbol name in the debugger.

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