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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: #include
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:11:56 +0000
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On 23/03/2025 11:08, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 3/23/25 5:15 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 23/03/2025 08:54, Mikko wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Some languages use include to compensate the lack of some
>>> better features for the same purpose. languages that have
>>> those better features don't need include and usually haven't.
>>
>> If I were a Ritchie (pace, Tevye, there is no music), the VERY 
>> FIRST TIME a compilation failed because I forgot a header I'd 
>> have merged all the headers into one and then hardcoded that 
>> one everything.h header into the compiler itself. Problem... 
>> SOLVED.
>>
> 
> Doesn't work for user includes.

Indeed. But if it works for stdio, stdlib, string, math, ctype 
and assert, it works all the work it has to.

> 
> Yes, we could have the compiler auto include all the standard 
> headers, but then we lose the ability to improve the backwards 
> compatibility of standards that require the inclusion of a new 
> header to enable new nice symbols for new features that used to 
> be available to the user to use.

I'll take the hit. :-)

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