#ifndef GRAPHICS_H (Re: C Style)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <9345 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Well, a good reason for nonetheless letting the compiler take care of it
> for you is that otherwise the user of the header needs to also know the
> special lock symbol for the header.  General design principles argue that
> the symbol should be the private property of the header.

Well, if you're working on a large project that has standardised the usage
of "*_H" as the gatekeeper for "*.h", then this becomes a moot point. For
example, look at the standard AmigaDOS include files. And certainly headers
that nest such includes can be expected to sync with other headers that do
the same thing. I wasn't suggesting putting the test in your ".c" files.
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