Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Including header files minimally.
Message-ID: <1988Dec8.212205.17902@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 88 21:22:05 GMT

In article <21780@apple.Apple.COM> darin@Apple.COM (Darin Adler) writes:
>... Writing a compiler (or preprocessor) that
>notices the wrapping and optimizes it is extremely easy...

How extremely easy or significantly difficult it is depends on how your
compiler is implemented.  However, I concede that I was overly pessimistic
about this, and it's probably the right approach.
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