[Development] Using '#pragma once' instead of include guards?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 10 October 2022 13:20:56 PDT Henry Skoglund wrote:
> But perhaps there could be use of #pragma once anyway, as a way to
> detect those duplicate files? Say something like this at the top of an
> .h file:
> 
> #pragma once
> #if defined QGLOBAL_H
> #error "Multiple instances of qglobal.h detected"
> #endif
> #define QGLOBAL_H
> ...

I thought of that but didn't write in my reply because, though it helps 
identify the problem, it doesn't help the poor non-developer who ran into the 
problem. They'll still get hard errors either way, probably several screenfuls 
of them.

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