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Re: Projects for beginners
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Projects for beginners
- From: Bruce Korb <bkorb at cruzio dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:53:01 -0800
- CC: zackw at stanford dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <10101311217.AA01140@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner wrote:
>
> There are two things in here that I'm not sure are such good ideas:
>
> Add multiple include guards to all header files.
>
> I think this encourages sloppy use of header files. I'd much prefer to
> have some standard ordering of header files that we adopt.
NO!!! I remember well the days of unguarded headers.
They are not completely dead yet, but I still hope for
their final demise. I do not ever want to _have_ to know
that header a can be included only after header b. Programming
is complicated enough without just that much more clutter.
NO, NO and NO AGAIN!
Thank you.