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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assorted C Questions
Summary: more of less
Message-ID: <283@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 89 19:01:59 GMT
References: <4294@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1989Sep6.160004.19253@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <1989Sep6.160004.19253@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

|  >#define min(x,y)	(((x) < (y)) ? (x) : (y))
|  >foobar(min,max)
|  >Sometype min,max;
|  >{}
|  >
|  >   Will this foul up the preprocessor...
|  
|  No; parameterized macro names are recognized as such *only* when followed
|  immediately by "(".

  My standard isn't handy, but all of the preprocessors I use allow
whitespace between the name and the ( because the local indent does it
that way.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon