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From: "Rogelio Serrano" <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Include guards and multiple includes
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:39:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9951d2a0610230539o59e57e30vbd05a5676ab81e17@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <219D85AA-959D-464C-90C2-0F132809F0B9@telus.net>

On 10/21/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
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> I'm trying to convince some non-believers that include files should
> not include other include files, and that instead they should state
> their dependencies; they want hard data before they commit to such a
> scheme.
>
> Is there some study kicking around that I could point them at rather
> than re-factor our code base and time the resulting builds?  I know
> the plan9 headers largely follow this pattern.
>
> Paul

I think this has more to do with minimising the preprocessor logic. I
like the plan 9 include tree more than the traditional unix include
mess. In my programs I dont use macros anywhere. none. nada. zero.

If one could only get rid of the preprocessor...

-- 
the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-23 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 18:45 Paul Lalonde
2006-10-20 19:27 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-20 20:18   ` Russ Cox
2006-10-20 20:37     ` Paul Lalonde
2006-10-22 16:37       ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-23 12:29         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-20 23:15 ` geoff
2006-10-20 23:39   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-24 14:32   ` AtomicKobold Design
2006-10-23 12:39 ` Rogelio Serrano [this message]
2006-10-23 12:41   ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-23 12:52     ` Rogelio Serrano
2006-10-23 13:26       ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-23 15:30         ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-23 18:43         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-23 19:12           ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-23 20:23             ` geoff

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