ANSI proposal for preprocessor strings

[Ken Arnold%CGL]

In article <8986 at brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>The ANSI C standard wants to support TOKENIZED preprocessing.
>The character-string based kludges possible with the Reiser CPP
>do not fit into this concept.

They can want anything they choose to, but C currently exists.  My
arguments are based, generally, on the precept "thou shalt not break
existing code".  I, too, WANT C to work in some ways differently than
currently, but I'd fight anyone trying to put the changes I want into
the standard.
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		Ken Arnold
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Of COURSE we can implement your algorithm.  We've got this Turing
machine emulator...