RE: My not-quite obsolete namespace parser

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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> C and C++ and probably most others
> don't detect duplicate include references at all.
> You just get an avalanche of "attempt to redefine ..." messages.
> C/C++ programmers have to set up elaborate systems
> of kludgy #ifdef's to avoid redefining stuff. Bjarne Stroustrup
> has admitted that this is a flaw in the C/C++ include file mechanism.
> 
> I'm content with the current way of handling duplicate includes.
> It's been that way for 9 years and I don't recall anyone complaining
> about it. There aren't many other features with as clean a record.  smile

As I've written before, Euphoria is perfect already blink

As a philosophical diversion: 
 Are two files the same if their names are the same or if their contents 
are the same?

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Derek

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