Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <4481759c$0$15787$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Kent Friis  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>Den 31 May 2006 07:41:06 -0700 skrev mdj:
>> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I don't consider that an API, but a library!  An API should provide access
>>> to something else but itself.  Such as external hardware, or some other
>>> software module.
>>
>> Fair enough. I consider the terms API and "standard library"
>> synonymous, as I'm sure most developers do ....
>
>Just like certain Java-programmers who consider Interface and Class
>synonymous... (That's what the I in API means - Interface).
>
>There is the interface and the implementation. The two halves of
>a working library.

I fully agree with that!  The API is the specification, not the
implementation.  There might be some parts of the library which
can be called by outside code but wasn't intended to be called in
that way - they're not part of the API, even though they're part of
the library!




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