Matthew Collett wrote:

> In article <3cIfc.51826$75.2848@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>,
>  nagle@animats.com (John Nagle) wrote:
>
>
>> Perl searches entire subtrees for
>>included files; the C++ preprocessor does not.
>
>
> I hadve always understood the way the preprocessor searches for includes
> to be entirely implementation defined...

   Does that mean that this issue should be referred to the
IEEE's Portable Application Standards Committee, for incorporation
into the POSIX standard?  If the C++ committee explicitly takes the position
that the syntax and semantics of what appears within the quote marks of "include"
lies outside their scope, the issue properly belongs to PASC.

    John Nagle
    Animats

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