Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Clever C Preprocessor Definitions Sought
Message-ID: <1989Sep5.224108.565@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <555@stdc01.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 22:41:08 GMT

In article <555@stdc01.UUCP> mjones@stdc01.UUCP (Michael Jones) writes:
>       (If this example shocks you, arrange to view the S.R. Bourne "SH" 
>       source code! Almost anyone would think it was in algol-60.)

Modern versions of the Bourne shell have been fixed to get rid of those
silly macros, which made the code a little bit harder to read and noticeably
harder to use automatic tools on.
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