syntactical convenience

[Henry Spencer]

> A more important addition, and a surprising lack in the standard, is the
> preprocessor, which doesn't allow inserting preprocessing directives. Our
> standards rep had no good arguments against adding the capability, which is
> no harder to implement...

Not all implementors would agree.
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