[Swift-devel] cpp

[Ben Clifford]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> (By the way, I played with cpp as a way to #include swift library code. 
> It worked well for a simple test; needs much more experimentation and 
> testing. That or a similar approach looks promising).

GNU cpp is fairly explicit in its man page about not using it for 
non-C-like source files. That's fine for hacking round with, but so is 
/bin/cat.

Implementing some library system for Swift probably needs substantially 
more consideration - there are issues like modular compilation of code 
that are similar to other languages, as well as other more swift-specific 
issues (for example, should opting to use a library bring along relevant 
tc.data entries that are not usually defined?)

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