Standardized predefined CPP symbols, down with folklore

[Dave Sherman]

In article <297 at watdcsu.UUCP> geo at watdcsu.UUCP (Geo Swan) writes:
~|\I agree with the need for standards.
~|\Further, these standards should be properly documented.
~|\I learned that cpp automatically sharp defined "unix",
~|\when I tried to declare a variable named "unix".  (Try it sometime.)

Actually, it wouldn't matter if the implementors had had the sense
to have cpp implcitly "#define unix unix", instead of "#define unix 1".
The first would still permit all "#ifdef unix" work, while the actual
implementation caused me grief one day when I tried to create a
function called unix()

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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