Deprecate C style declerations?

[Bill Baxter]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Thomas Kuehne" <thomas-dloop at kuehne.cn> wrote in message 
> news:slrneokpko.mj5.thomas-dloop at birke.kuehne.cn...
> 
>> How about "pragma(line, ...);" ?
> 
> Much nicer looking, but unfortunately, there's a problem with it.  Pragmas 
> are not considered until after the lexical pass, and that's what the #line 
> directive affects.  Basically the lexer would have to know about pragmas and 
> be able to syntax and semantic them partially, breaking the separation 
> between the passes.  The current syntax has the advantage of meaning 
> absolutely nothing after the lexical pass completes.
> 
> Furthermore, pragmas can only legally appear where declarations would. 
> #line can appear anywhere, even in the middle of a line.
> 
> But I agree that it's a waste of # :) 
> 
> 

It is a waste.  So pragma's doen't work.  I also hesitate to make some 
notation in a comment suddenly have some effect.  Maybe just make the 
sigil be sequence of symbols rather than a single one?

:#line 6 "foo\bar"
/#line 6 "fool\bar"
##line 6 "foo\bar"
##{{line 6 "foo\bar"}}
##/line

Or what about #pragma(line, ...)


--bb