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Re: New STD header format (no extension),

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From: Marc Girod
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 15:32
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In article <48ta6u$5c2@engnews1.eng.sun.com> clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) writes:

>>>>> "SC" == Steve Clamage <clamage@Eng.sun.com> writes:

SC> No. But you should use <header> for system headers and "header" for
SC> your own headers. The two notations have implementation-defined
SC> semantics, and implementations traditionally use different search
SC> methods so that a system header will not override a project header,
SC> and vice versa.

I was myself recommending to users in my project to resort to one and
only one include syntax (that is #include <...>), under the rationale
that:

The location of the included files is a configuration management
concern and should be taken care inthe makefile. Extra-linguistic
features should be used only as few as possible.

Would you comment on that?
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From: girod@dshp01.trs.ntc.nokia.com (Marc Girod)
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Subject: Re: New STD header format (no extension),
Date: 23 Nov 1995 15:32:19 GMT
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