From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 11:46:58 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] # as first character of file In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: IIRC the V7 compiler did not require it. It's possible Typesetter C may have also. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:41 AM, ron minnich wrote: > I just went looking at the v6 source to confirm a memory, namely that cpp > was only invoked if a # was the first character in the file. Hence, this: > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V6-Snapshot- > Development/usr/source/c/c01.c#L1 > > People occasionally forgot this, and hilarity ensued. > > Now I'm curious. Anyone know when that convention ended? > > ron > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: