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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: conditional includes
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Date: 17 Jan 89 16:56:08 GMT
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In article <8000011@modcomp> joe@modcomp.UUCP writes:
: The idea is obvious enough that it probably has occurred to others.  Have
: any of you run across an implementation?  What problems have come up with
: it?

Assert.h and anything similar, unless a different keyword is used for
the include.

There is also the little gotcha of identity: should foo and ./foo be
considered the same file? How about on a non-Unix system?

:      Or do you consider it trivial and thus would just be another instance
: of "creeping featurism" in the language?

Yes, it's a creeping feature. The feature is easily implementable in
the existing language and recognizable at a glance as what it is.

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Bill
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