Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Recursive Definitions: Trouble or Bad news?
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.161500.23828@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7657@cdis-1.uucp>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 89 16:15:00 GMT

In article <7657@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>I should be interested to know the latest ANSI wisdom on a construct
>requesting that token BLUNGE be replaced by itself:
>	#define BLUNGE BLUNGE

ANSI C (draft of last Oct) specifically says that the macro name is not
expanded if encountered within the body of the macro.
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