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>Just in case you think this is a disadvantage of classes, I want to point out that the situation is quite similar with traditional (non-OOP) programming.
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>You have a function (user-defined function) B() that depends on function A(). In order to use function B(), you also need to distribute function A().
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Hilmar,

You typically only have to distribute the compiled object code, not the source itself.