On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:50 PM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ഓം wrote: > > [snipping off some portions] and assuming that you are being sarcastic > or like (based on a few earlier mails on other threads) > >> Why can't these .h files be called .i files, they are include files >> and what better suffix for include files that .i? >> Are we still following what some "stdio.h" wrote 15 or more years ago >> without bothering to why not change for better? >> >> Any suggestion on this front? >> >> Why can't compilers be built to have these files included at any place >> in the program other than at the start? >> >> Just curious!! > > http://eli-project.sourceforge.net/c_html/c.html is one place to start > with perhaps. > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/ is another along with > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ > > ~sankarshan
Sincere thanks! I tried understanding it a bit but I think either I need to do lot of study into computer fundamentals or take somebody's help in this. However i have a feeling that you have pointed at the good resource for beginning of the expedition for anyone (not just me) who is interested in learning more... ! -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
