Re: Is "#define __ foo" legal?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 22:29

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In article <JET.92Aug5151555@win30.nas.nasa.gov> jet@win30.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>I checked K&R + ansi and they say "#define identifier ... ".  Does
>that specificially mean that the first token after a define must be a
>valid identifier?  (I'm going to assume that it does.)

Yes... but `__' is a valid identifier.  Sounds like somebody goofed.
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There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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