Re: #import is obsolete

[Jeff Teunissen]

Chris Hanson wrote:

> On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 04:25  PM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
> > #import is deprecated, instead #include should be used in conjunction
> > with include guards. See previous threads about this topic.
> 
> The #import directive is *not* deprecated in Objective-C and you should
> *not* switch to #include with include guards; Apple owns the
> Objective-C language specification and I don't recall them ever saying
> any such thing.

No, Apple own the trade mark. No specification of the language exists, and
even if it did, it couldn't be "owned".

> Yes, there have been plenty of threads about this over the years.
> Unfortunately, the default build of GCC continues to not conform to the
> language standard and emit obsolete warnings.

The warnings exist because #import is badly-defined. It doesn't even
always work correctly (read: "as intended") on Mac OS X, and didn't always
work correctly on NeXTstep/OPENSTEP either.

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