On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:32 +0300, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
> On May 27, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Michele Simionato wrote:
> 
> > I would not spend much time in supporting "include" or more advanced
> > features, since they would not be portable anyway.
> 
> But *I* and many others do use these features and I never thought of
> "include" as brittle or nonstandard.  That's why I need to fix it.
> As for being nonstandard or nonportable, well, so what?  It can't
> magically appear in the standard just because I dreamt it last night.
> :-)  It needs to be implemented, documented, used, found useful (or
> not), pushed to other implementations, before becoming "standard".
> I never shy from implementing a feature because it's not standard.

My (xitomatl include) is fully portable.  Compatibility libraries allow
many things to be portable without needing standards.

-- 
: Derick
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