Re: Proposed feature: #include inline

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Tavis Rudd wrote:
>
>> I don't like #include in general, but I can't see anything wrong with
>> this addition to it.
>>
>> Anyone else got a good suggestion for an alternate name that makes it
>> very clear that this happens at compile time?
>
> Perhaps a direct `#inline` directive? Not that I feel too wonderful
> about adding a new directive (since I've not yet got the documentation
> up to par yet)

Nah.  I think it belongs with #include.

#include-during-compile ? (feels a bit long to type, but then I'd never 
type this myself ;)

>>
>> Tavis
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not going to write up a CHEP for this just yet, but I came across a
>>> usecase for `#include inline` version `#include raw` today.
>>>
>>> When watching a production server run through a particular template I
>>> realized that we were using `#include raw` far too much, resulting in a
>>> large amount of open(2) and read(2) calls (to be expected, duh).
>>>
>>> What we *really* want to do however, is an `#include inline` which would
>>> be processed and the contents of the included file inlined at *compile
>>> time* instead of raw's inclusion at run time.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Tavis, if you've no enormous objections, I think this would be a
>>> reasonable addition.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> -R. Tyler Ballance
>>> Slide, Inc.
>>>
> -R. Tyler Ballance
> Slide, Inc.
>

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