how widespread is this cpp bug?

[John Woods]

In article <12967 at duke.cs.duke.edu>, khera at romeo.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) writes:
> >#define VERSION 2
> >main() {
> >	proc/**/VERSION( a,b,c );
> >}
> I have used this ``feature'' to simplify having to write a bunch of
> duplicate code with a macro... how else would this macro be constructed? 
> 
In ANSI C, you use the ## operator.  In some existing C's, you just simply
can't construct such a macro, and if you ever want to use one of those C's,
you're out of luck.

The last time I wanted to do such a thing, I used M4 to generate the macros.
It was much more flexible, anyway.

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