<div dir="auto">Does using contents for #pragma once break any practical or plausible uses of #pragma once? Does it have any clear downsides?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don’t think does. It should only make things more robust and portable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jeremy</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 12:07 Andrey Semashev via Std-Proposals &lt;<a href="mailto:std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org">std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On 8/27/24 17:01, Jeremy Rifkin via Std-Proposals wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi,<br>
&gt; I have drafted a proposal for standardizing #pragma once. This has been<br>
&gt; previously proposed a few years ago and I recognize that on top of being<br>
&gt; difficult to standardize, existing opinions on this topic may render the<br>
&gt; paper dead on arrival. However, due to its widespread nature and<br>
&gt; concerns about portability contributing to it not being used more I<br>
&gt; think it&#39;s worth revisiting. I have uploaded the first draft at:<br>
&gt; <a href="https://jeremy-rifkin.github.io/cpp-proposals/drafts/pragma-once-draft-1.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jeremy-rifkin.github.io/cpp-proposals/drafts/pragma-once-draft-1.html</a> &lt;<a href="https://jeremy-rifkin.github.io/cpp-proposals/drafts/pragma-once-draft-1.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jeremy-rifkin.github.io/cpp-proposals/drafts/pragma-once-draft-1.html</a>&gt;.<br>
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I think, using file contents for `#pragma once` is wrong and should not<br>
be standardized. The intended effect of `#pragma once` has always been<br>
to avoid including *the same header* twice, not *the same content*.<br>
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