[tptacek]

I take your point, but I'm not sure you're really taking his. As another data point, I just did a find/xargs-grep across my "~/codebase/3p" tree, which has ~5500 .h files for projects ranging from MongoDB to Ruby and Python to OpenSSL to valgrind. Virtually all of them have nested includes. Many of them are components of mission-critical software.

He's right; nested includes are a modern C idiom.

[keithflower]

> In all my years writing C, I have never seen a C/C++ header which does not include the other headers it needs in order to compile cleanly.

> He's right; nested includes are a modern C idiom.

No doubt they are found a lot. The request was for counterexamples. Fashion/style vs engineering practice assertions may be passing like ships on a nighttime C here.

>...for projects ranging from MongoDB to Ruby and Python...

Python....why, even Tim Peters asserts that "Flat is better than nested"...wink...

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

/irrelevant quote