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• header - “Mechanism whereby the definitions of a class or other names are made available to multiple programs. A program uses a header through a include directive.” (CppPrmLp 2012)

Snippet from Wikipedia: Header (computing)

In information technology, header is supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted. In data transmission, the data following the header is sometimes called the payload or body.

It is vital that header composition follows a clear and unambiguous specification or format, to allow for parsing.

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