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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ifdef replacement for GNAT
Date: 1998/04/13
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In article <6gt6ij$q6o@top.mitre.org>, mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes:

> These are good steps. However, there still needs to be a need for
> conditional compilation for three reasons. 

Regardless of the presence of reasons for supporting inline conditional
compilation, I believe the current state of affairs is the correct one,
due to the overwhelming strong reason for _not_ supporting it -- namely
that it will get abused.  Take a look at any multi-platform C program.

Larry Kilgallen