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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: #if instead of .if
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
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> : you can't use #.  See how much trouble the X/imake folks go through
> : (use XCOMM in their Imakefile, which are replaced with # for Makefile, 
> : ugh) to avoid this problem.
> 
> That is done because cpp on some systems whines loudly or refuses to
> work when you don't have a valid directive name after the #.  It has
> little to do with the comment directive duality.
> 
> In fact, many languages use this:
> 	1) Dec Fortran has CDEC xxx in column 1 (a comment by any
> 		other name...
> 	2) lint has /*NOTREACHED*/

Lint has a hell of a lot more than that!  I guess you could argue
precedent, if we had lint.  ;^).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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