Re: #import (Re: [PATCH] Fix -save-temps...)

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> >
> > Yup, OS X (or more accurately Darwin) has real inodes.  In fact, I've
> > been using them to fix a #import problem for which I'll be submitting
> > a patch soon.
> 
> You are aware that the party line from where I'm sitting is that
> #import should be abandoned in favor of #include used with wrapper
> #ifndefs?

Unfortunately somebody forgot to tell NeXT about a decade ago :-),
and so now #import is a) recommended for Objective-C still, and b)
assumed to work by nearly 5000 headers in Mac OS X.

In fact, there was a discussion about #import vs #include on the
GNUstep list a few weeks ago, with some people wondering why GCC
was deprecating standard ObjC coding practices.  While I agree
conceptually with changing to #include, we haven't even gotten
the word out to everybody, let alone gotten them to change their
code.

Stan