Language change proposal

[Luke Gorrie]

Bengt Kleberg <Bengt.Kleberg@REDACTED> writes:

> i have maintained (somebody elses) c code which used #ifdef, and i
> promised myself never to do that again.

They have this in Common Lisp too. The other week I was trying to
understand a single function that was 170 lines long and contained no
fewer than 43 ifdef-style conditionals.

"Not very nice."

By the way, I've found a really fun new way of inspecting programs:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?q=teleport.el&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=lhoexds818.fsf%40dodo.bluetail.com&rnum=1

(Joe, I think you might like it :-))

Cheers,
Luke (who'd be remiss not to mention Emacs `hide-ifdef' mode, for when
      you need to read heavily ifdef'ified C)