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From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Initialization in #include files
Summary: oh dear, thats not funny
Message-ID: <426@proxftl.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 15:50:52 GMT
References: <28400001@ntvax> <6104@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <2955@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <548@philmds.UUCP>
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In article <548@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
)                                                                   The
) whole idea is like a magic trick. And if you're out for tricks, you
) could just as well put all source in one file, distinguishing between
) modules with an ifdef surrouding each module in the file 8-) (smiley
) added to ensure that people will not take this as a serious
) possibility).

Unfortunately for your humor, I have actually seen that done!
The rational was something like: multiple source files are a
pain.  My response was obscene.