C's Limited Macro Capabilities

Steve Simmons scs at itivax.iti.org
Fri Dec 8 12:08:45 AEST 1989


In article <69517 at psuecl.bitnet> bpm at psuecl.bitnet (Brian Moquin) writes:
>This is not legal C, but if it were I think it would enhance the power
>of macro expansions significantly.  Thoughts?

Keep complex macro processing in macro processing languages, leave a
well-defined standard (well....) alone.  See m4.

Shucks, if it were up to me there wouldn't be a cpp at all.
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