I'm learning Objective-C, and they use #import "File.h" instead of #include "File.h" . The tutorial I'm using says that import is like an include once thing, and it basically implements the #ifndef blocks that's normally done manually in C++. I was just wondering if this is something specific to Objective C, or if it's built into the C predecessor, and technically could be used with C++, but just isn't commonly.
No special standard features in C++ and C preprocessors to do it.
The #import preprocessor directive in MS Visual C++ has totally different semantics (strictly speaking, it's not preprocessor directive at all). There are another directives (for example, #pragma once) but they are not standard (portable) ones too.
There are Obj_C #import analogues in some other languages (in PHP, for example), but no such directive in C and C++.
It's a common case, Object-C != C++...
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