Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!hsi!stpstn!lerman
From: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Problems maintaining header files
Message-ID: <6107@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 21:00:18 GMT
References: <15917@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT 06482
Lines: 17

In article <15917@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519) writes:
:
:In C, I barely managed to keep all my header files straight and organized.
:C++ just compounds my problems.

...

:
:Are constructs like '#pragma once' just entirely common in C++ headers? I
:find them ugly..

Objective-C (please hold the flames down to a dull roar) uses '#import
<foo.h>' to mean the same thing as '#include <foo.h>' except do
nothing if the file has already been imported.  This is MUCH nicer
than '#pragma once' and might be a useful addition to C++.

Ken