[swift-evolution] [Discussion]: Renaming #line, the line control statement

[Chris Lattner]

On Feb 4, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Adrian Prantl <aprantl at apple.com> wrote:
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>> #setsyntacticsourcelocation
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>> or something. :-)
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> Is compatibility with the C preprocessor and other preprocessors that emit #line directives a non-goal for Swift?
> I guess we probably don’t want to encourage (ab-)use of the C preprocessor and one could easily translate #line directives to Swift’s syntax by preprocessing the preprocessor output with sed, but I’m curious.

It is a non-goal.  “clang -E” generates a ton of weird forms that we don’t want or need to support.

-Chris