#pragma

[Karl Heuer]

In article <7973 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Personally I want #pragma out of the standard...

I think it should stay in, so that the cretins who like to invent new things
like "#module" or "#ident" will have a semi-standard way to do so without
interfering with the rest of the world.  (At least "#pragma" can be ifdef'd
out.  "#module" can't%.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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% Unless conforming implementations are required to ignore all unrecognized
directives when skipping code--which I think is a bad idea.