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In article <4klsr0$ii4@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve
Clamage) writes:

|> In article 0804961108400001@news.aimnet.com, mike_duigou@fwb.com
|> (Mike Duigou) writes:
|> >While reading parts of the April 1995 draft I noticed that the section on
|> >preprocessing seemed to be pretty much the same as the ANSI C
|> >preprocessor. Was there a concious descision to make no changes?

|> Yes. The intent is to make preprocessing behave exactly the same way,
|> except of course for the predefined macros __STDC__ and __cplusplus.

And `//' comments:-).  (Actually, I believe that there is a good chance
that the next revision of the C standard contain these as well.)

I'm not sure that I could write an example that would show the
difference, but wouldn't the fact that things like `and' are predefined
macros in a C, but keywords in C++, make a difference?
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