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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Text control characters
Date: 1997/09/12
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In article <5v9vj1$dge$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Dale Stanbrough  <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>Thinking about it, the preprocessor selection of a with statement
>would seem to be a fairly benign use of preprocessors. Can anyone see
>any great harm in this scheme?

To me, it seems better than putting various hacks in your make files or
shell scripts or whatever.  Or, at least, it *would* seem better, if
there were a standard preprocessor for Ada, defined by the language.

- Bob