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by NhanH 4032 days ago
Interestingly, I first started with C (although I haven't written a line of C code for a long time), and when I first move to higher-level languages, I dislike the fact that I have no idea where the file I just imported is. Moreso when I'm playing with obscure/ new language: if I can just import whatever files I wanted (rather than at package level), it seems that would be much easier to hack on the language/std itself.
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pjc50 4032 days ago
I have no idea where the file I just imported is

A sufficiently long include path can give you this problem anyway. I recently tripped over this when I created a "reason.h" and discovered that Windows had a file of the same name deep inside MFC.

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fao_ 4032 days ago
I recently tripped over this when I created a "reason.h" and discovered that Windows had a file of the same name deep inside MFC.

It is my understanding that that would be solved by placing your file in a local directory called 'inc/' and having:

  #include "inc/reason.h"
instead of:

  #include <reason.h>
(or just replacing "" with <>). But I have never programmed in VSC before, so I may be wrong.
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