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Re: [std-proposals] Revising #pragma once

From: Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:07:17 +0300
On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 at 02:05, Jeremy Rifkin <rifkin.jer_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > All those poor developers need to do is use include guards. That's
> > demonstrably not an unreasonable burden.
>
> > It's high time this proposal is nuked, yet again. I'll happily do that
> > in the committee if need be, but I'd prefer not wasting time on it
> > there.
>
> People are using #pragma once, standard or not. Standardizing it would
> give people clearer expectations about when it is and is not ok to
> use.

I wonder how standardizing it does that. And how not standardizing it doesn't.

Received on 2024-08-29 23:07:32