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Re: Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 20:49
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Someone remind me of the motivation for a tokenising preprocessor instead
of the old text-based preprocessor again. It's sounding more and more like
a whole lot of work for little gain...

(maybe it's time to dust `m4' off again)
-- 
`-_-' Peter da Silva <peter@ficc.uu.net> <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>.
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"I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11 had taken
 time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it." -- Tom Neff <tneff@bfmny0>
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]
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Date: 21 Nov 89 20:49:11 GMT
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