builtins and automatic defines

[Alan J Rosenthal]

In article <816 at bentley.UUCP> kwh at bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>I wonder if perhaps <stdio.h> (and <builtins.h>) should be included by
>default, with an explicit "#exclude" to disable.  (Cf. "#undef".)  Probably
>tricky to implement -- don't do the automatic "#include" until checking for
>"#exclude", which must be at the top of the file (after whitespace)?

Why bother?  This would be very complicated and lead to many mistakes due
to an unclear definition of whitespace or whatever.
I have a file called "beginc", it's a shellscript, and it creates a file
which begins something like this:

		#include <stdio.h>
		#include "/u/flaps/ajr.h"
		#include <strings.h>
		#define TRUE 1
		#define FALSE 0

		main(argc,argv)
		int argc;
		char *argv[];
		{

and then puts you in $EDITOR on the file.  This approach is much better
than any #exclude op.  It's more easily disabled or modified because you
don't have the reverse situation of deleting things by adding in lines.

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Alan J Rosenthal
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