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Is #import part of the C++11 standard?


I'm trying to find out whether it's safe to use #import (instead of #include with include guards) in a cross-platform C++11 library?

The articles I found on SO and elsewhere seem to indicate that #import was proposed to be included in the C++11 standard, yet judging by answers from around ~2012 it still seemed to be Microsoft and GCC specific extensions with import not being an accepted standard.


Solution

  • No, there's no "#import" in the current C++ standard.

    The syntax has often been proposed as part of a module system for C++, but so far there hasn't been sufficient consensus on how such a system should work in detail.