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Subject: Re: quotes inside #if 0
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Date: 7 Sep 89 20:03:57 GMT
References: <2014@munnari.oz.au> <14512@haddock.ima.isc.com> <2023@munnari.oz.au> <1989Sep6.163608.20143@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
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In article <1989Sep6.163608.20143@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <2023@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>>... There was never any suggestion in any book
>>that #if 0-ed code had to have balanced single quotes, ...
>
>There was never any suggestion that it didn't, either.  One should avoid
>the mistake of assuming that books contain all the answers, ...




This assertion puzzles me.  Are you saying I won't be able to rely on the
ANSI standard to answer questions about the language?  I assume it will be in
book form if and when it is published.

    Marv Rubinstein