🚀 go-pugleaf

pahint@eunet.be (Pieter Hintjens) writes:

>Phil Edwards (pedwards@valhalla.cs.wright.edu) wrote:
>: it seems Pieter Hintjens (pahint@eunet.be) sez:
>: + I am building the ultimate Universal Header File.  :-)

[...]
>Okay, point taken about including masses of files: I am making the
>UIF smarter, so that you can tune it with a few #define's at the
>start of your program.

But that's absolutely counter-useful! Where's the real gain if you have
to write 

#define WANT_STDIO
#define WANT_LOCAL_SOMETHING
#include <uUHF.h>

instead of

#include <stdio.h>
#include <local_something.h>

(And you would actually *have* to use such a method of defining *all*
the necessary WANT's, or equivalently some DONT_WANT's, to keep at least
a bit of your available namespace free for use by the program you're
writing)

Anyway, IMHO such an uUHF would be such a big waste of name space as
to render it a real nuisance, and lose all it's possible benefits
at once.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)