[GD-General] Re: Preprocessors

[Patrick M D. <pa...@wa...>]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Brian Hook wrote:

> Or the belief that languages shouldn't have preprocessors because the
> C preprocessor was so gross; inevitably you lose major functionality
> like "#ifdef 0/#endif" and the language designers defend it to the
> end.

Or simply that they intend for you to use existing preprocessors.  There
is little to stop you from using the C preprocessor as a front-end for
most languages out there.

Patrick