Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 7 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.