Macro parameters getting substituted into strings

[Alan J Rosenthal]

Discussing the removal of macro replacement inside strings, John
Gilmore complains that this will break dozens of application programs,
both in sysV and in BSD.

In article <10194 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> jss at hector (Jerry Schwarz) writes:
>Once again.  The adoption of the standard will not break anything.
>New compilers will break things.  But compiler vendors can support
>compatibility modes for as long as they choose.

In this area, the compiler cannot support backward compatibility.  Given
a definition:

	#define a(b)"a b c"

what does a(x) substitute to?  ANSI says "a b c"; existing practice
says "a x c"; there is no way to accomodate both.

ajr

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