From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-26 09:44:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?) References: <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <400FC8E8.2040100@noplace.com> <4011127C.4030801@noplace.com> <_bdQb.24861$zj7.15527@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:29:46 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1075138134 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:28:54 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:28:54 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4825 Date: 2004-01-26T12:29:46-05:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: > >>Given that it should be optional, it would not be your problem ;-) > > It's also optional in C/C++ ... and AFAIK this is a problem for everybody :) > > Pascal. You have to go out of your way to turn it off in a C/C++ compile. In that sense, it is not optional. Another factor that gets into the way of optional use in C/C++, is the fact that the standard and system include files all *require* that preprocessing takes place. So in the normal C/C++ use, preprocessing is _not_ optional. But you knew that already ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk