brett@BRL-AOS.ARPA (06/29/84)
From: Brett Fleisch <brett@BRL-AOS.ARPA> Another feature BCPL had (other than the one I mentioned on INFO-C) was the ability to supress duplicate includes. (It knew if it had been included before). Does C have such a switch? Answer: NO Right? /brett fleisch
marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) (07/17/84)
>Another ability BCPL had... >was the ability to suppress duplicate includes... Ahh, but it was so implementation dependant. The version I used on an ICL 1906 (model number, not design date) which I think was written by a masters student at Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham, Wiltshire, could only cope with a limited number of include files, and you were also limited to 4096 bytes worth of manifest constants because of some obscure data area on the 1906. But i did like the ability to nest functions within functions - very useful for tracing - and the unlimited length symbol names were pretty useful too... marcus hand pyuxt!marcus