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From: Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:13:09 +0200
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Martin Dowie wrote:

> That 'problem' isn't unique to Ada - I can't think of another
> language that *does* define a pre-processor.
> 
> And if you like a preprocessor - just use one! You can always write
> a makefile/.bat/.com/<whatever> to invoke the preprocessor before the
> compiler is called. GNAT comes with an Ada-centric preprocessor but
> there is nothing to stop you using the 'C' one.


Here is an interesting link BTW:

http://boost-consulting.com/tmpbook/preprocessor.html



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Ioannis Vranos

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