The most common alternative to #pragma once is to use #define to set an include guard macro, the name of which is picked by the programmer to be unique to that file. For example, #ifndef GRANDPARENT_H #define GRANDPARENT_H ... contents of grandparent.h #endif /* !GRANDPARENT_H */.
1 Costco is three years old and has 17 locations, 1.3 million members, and 3,740 employees.  Costco's first Pharmacy opens in Portland, Oregon and the Tukwila, WA warehouse becomes the house of the company's first fresh meat department.
In 1983 they opened the first Costco, in Seattle. Today the company operates more than 550 warehouses worldwide, employs 140,000 workers and generates $70 billion in annual sales.