#import and PCH

Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
Sat Jan 25 01:08:00 GMT 2003


Geoffrey Keating wrote:

>
> On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 04:48  PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>> Dale Johannesen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 04:08  PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't think we can go quite that fast - #import is an officially
>>>>> documented feature of Objective-C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Whatever "officially" means; the language is not standardized.
>>>
>> In this case, it would mean the document that asserts itself to be
>> the definitive description of Objective-C, which is Apple's manual.
>> Removing #import from FSF GCC would be a deliberate departure from
>> the written description of the language, an unusual step at the
>> very least.
>>
> Does the manual describe what it does?  Could you send me the description?
>
The manual is on your machine already, PDF and HTML in
/Developer/Documentation/Cocoa/ObjectiveC.  Page 205 of the PDF
file says "identical to #include, except that it won't include the
same file more than once", and that's about it for description.

Stan




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