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"Charles F. McDevitt" <Chuck.McDevitt@elsegundoca.attgis.com> wrote:

>Wouldn't it be better to update the C++ standard so the
>default is that include files only get included once, and the
>compiler/preprocessor keeps track of which ones it's already 
>seen.  Then we wouldn't have to mess with these ugly #ifdefs
>to make include files only be included once.

This would require adding some special directive to deal with those
headers that may need to be included more than once.  E.g. assert.h may
be included any number of times, and depending on the current defintion
of NDEBUG, the definition of assert will change with each new inclusion.
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