Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!necntc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: #pragma Message-ID: <4308@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: 31 May 88 21:31:02 GMT References: <54080@sun.uucp> <11608@mimsy.UUCP> <7950@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1988May25.212239.1724@utzoo.uucp> <7973@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 12 In article <7973@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >Personally I want #pragma out of the standard... I think it should stay in, so that the cretins who like to invent new things like "#module" or "#ident" will have a semi-standard way to do so without interfering with the rest of the world. (At least "#pragma" can be ifdef'd out. "#module" can't%.) Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint ________ % Unless conforming implementations are required to ignore all unrecognized directives when skipping code--which I think is a bad idea.