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dat@thinkage.on.ca (David Adrien Tanguay) writes:
>Not really, just one less character to have to escape, one less variant
>international glyph to worry about. C may not use $, but other texts may.
>I infer from your reason that the '(' after the '$' is optional (in some
>contexts): i.e., $foo will expand the foo macro. I had thought otherwise.

The '(' after the '$' is only optional for single character macros.  This
can still be a problem even though there are no single letter preprocessor
directives.  "@DEFINE" could mean define a macro or it could mean expand
macro "D" and append "EFINE" to the result.  The use you suggest would
require the preprocessor to recognize some sort of punctuation (e.g. space)
and that would limit or at least complicate its use as a general tool.

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