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Types

Module
a group of objects and methods, along with some information about their definitions. Modules can also provide privacy boundaries, restricting certain methods' accessibility outside of the module.
FileModule
a module that has been built from source code from a file.
System
a collection of modules that together provide some larger service. Systems notably support operations on them to control large-scale libraries.



Brian Rice 2004-08-24