Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Ben A. Hetland wrote:
>
[...]
> >
> > ""
> > A search for the file is made first in the current directory and then in
> > the standard places.
> >
> > <>
> > the preprocessor looks for the file only in the standard places and not
> > in the current directory.
> >
> >
> > ...but the standard might have updated itself many times after that ;-)
>
> Interesting thing is that automake'd makefiles have -I., so they're
> actually the same. It's more a question of style, but
That's a pitty, since using -I. is actually defeating one of the
features of the language itself (or its preprocessor, to be precise).
I'd prefer it to be avoided myself, but I can see that 'automake' has
probably chosen this approach as a pragmatic solution to a common bad
practice of inconsistent use (confusion?) -- It simply causes less
problems. Only it's also facilitating more bad practice at the same
time...
Compilers behave differently also, unfortunately... so maybe you have a
point there about "question of style"...
-+-Ben-+-
