Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]
Norman Diamond
diamond at csl.sony.co.jp
Mon Nov 20 13:20:16 AEST 1989
In article <11641 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>pp-numbers work well for the
>>intended purpose and cause problems only in very rare circumstances
>>and only for programmers with an obsessive aversion to white space.
(Well it also causes a problem for me in scanning ALL source programs,
and I have no aversion to white space. But that's beside the point.)
In article <3060 at splut.conmicro.com> jay at splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>Uhm, Doug...does this mean that the behavior of a program differs with
>the use or non-use of white space? Isn't this different from the rest of
>C?
I'm not Doug, but this question is very easy to answer.
a+++b is different from a+ ++b
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