Recursive Definitions: Trouble or Bad news?

[Norman Diamond]

In article <7657 at cdis-1.uucp> tanner at cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>I should be interested to know the latest ANSI wisdom on a construct
>requesting that token BLUNGE be replaced by itself:
>	#define BLUNGE BLUNGE

This works.  ANSI says that nested replacements do not recognize a
macro name which has already been replaced.  It's not so clear with
more complicated examples though.

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