While programming as a an activity is something I, as many others, derive joy out of, there are obstacles that make it less appealing from time to time. One of those obstacles is C++. I know picking on C++ is a bit of a fashionable thing to do at the moment, but it's no wonder why: the language is easy to pick on (and it's widely used, for what ever historical reason). Well, lately I've been involved in a project utilising sepples and it's features heavily, and here's my latest gripe with the language: headers polluted with implementation details.

In C, if you want to write a static function inside your source file, unknown to the header file, and the function manipulates some data structure defined in the header, you can. For example:

foo.h:
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struct my_struct {int x;};
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foo.c:
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static void
_modify_struct(struct my_struct *s)
    {s->x = 5;}
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So yeah, I'm not a fan of sepples.