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From: stt@inmet
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Managing C++ Libraries: Dependencie
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Date: 8 Nov 88 18:08:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet!stt    Nov  8 13:08:00 1988


A simple language extension would be:

#include_once "classname.h"

which could be defined to be roughly equivalent to:

#ifndef classname_h
#define classname_h
#include "classname.h"
#endif

This would be similar to the "with" clause from Ada and the "import"
capability of Modula-2.  
This would be a useful addition to ANSI C as well, I would think.

S. Tucker Taft   ...uunet!inmet!stt; stt@inmet.inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA  02138