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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Making re-#includes harmless--a simple solution?
Message-ID: <6807@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Dec 87 12:44:05 GMT
References: <2000@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2000@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> newman@athena.mit.edu (Ron Newman) writes:
>Why not change the semantics of "#include" to be:  "if, while
>processing the current .c source file, I have already included this
>file once, then don't include it again"?

Because that's not the way C has worked, and some of us use this capability.
It was proposed at an X3J11 meeting and trounced.