Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:50:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@elvis.mu.org> Cc: aaron <aaron@lo-res.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h Message-ID: <3CD8BCA2.E3463255@mindspring.com> References: <200205071814.46995.aaron@lo-res.org> <3CD802AF.45825A2C@mindspring.com> <20020507200148.GD11262@elvis.mu.org>
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Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:37:03AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Such an arrangement is called "promiscuous includes".
>
> by whom?
>
> Your search - "promiscuous includes" - did not match any documents.[1]
Old farts.
Programmers who learned on systems with precompiled header (".i")
files, and on machines where number of included files was a real
factor in total compilation time?
Before "#ifndef _STDIO_H_" became a common way of protecting
programmers from including header files twice, instead of simply
making it a compiler error, so that they actually had to think
to write code.
8-) 8-).
It's what my college professor called it, back in 1982 or so...
so it's what I call it.
-- Terry
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