Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: #once considered non-standard?
Message-ID: <1989Mar21.215622.6952@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <125@riunite.ACA.MCC.COM>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 21:56:22 GMT

In article <125@riunite.ACA.MCC.COM> rfg@riunite.UUCP (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>OK.  Regarding #once, you suggested that it be #pragma once because
>C++ may be an ANSI standard someday.
>
>First note that this has nothing to do with either C or C++.  It is
>strictly a preprocessor issue...

That is an accident of the implementation; the preprocessor constructs
are *PART OF THE LANGUAGE* for any practical purposes.  Many compilers
do not use a separate preprocessor at all.
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