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Article #2668Re: The Preprocessor and tokens
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 04:16
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 04:16
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In article <1991Mar29.073102.1136@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes: >The L"..." syntax was (to the best of my knowledge) an ANSI invention and not >previously used. At least this one did not break working programs. Actually, it did (potentially, if not in practice). Classic C and ANSI C assign different meanings to the program fragment #define L - int x = L'\1'; I pointed out this out during one of the public review periods, which is why the feature is now noted as a QUIET CHANGE in the Rationale document. Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!dirtydog!karl From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: The Preprocessor and tokens Keywords: cpp Message-ID: <1991Apr03.041613.7836@ima.isc.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 04:16:13 GMT References: <3137@wyse.wyse.com> <1991Mar27.033525.21697@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <3140@wyse.wyse.com> <1991Mar29.073102.1136@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Sender: usenet@ima.isc.com Reply-To: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 12