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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
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"Mark" <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> late to the party and jumping in the middle of discussion [sorry]
>   please see:
>
>  http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
>    look for The C Preprocessor Versus D
>
>   for a different approach to getting rid of the preprocessor but
> maintaining some of the primary usage.

It's interesting to see the Ada concepts that have made it into D, including
the use of in / out / in out parameter modes.