CompuServe Messages

>necessary evil… Something is neccessary; I'm not sure it's pragmas. let's look at the ones for SAS as an example: the …call pragmas could be MUCH better handled (in my opinion) by some sort of 'modification' to the __asm prototyping. I'm absotively clueless why this didn't occur to the ANSI committee (or maybe no one there had ever worked on a machine with DLLs??) the msg pragma….yes it's useful to turn on and off errors and warnings. As a matter of fact it's SO useful, it should have been standardized.