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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question on programming languages
Keywords: Humor
Message-ID: <10894@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 2 Oct 89 04:36:25 GMT
References: <8720001@hplsla.HP.COM> <3580002@hprnd.HP.COM> <30431@news.Think.COM>
Reply-To: diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <30431@news.Think.COM> fad@think.com (Franklin A Davis) writes:

>#define SayBro /*
>#define CheckItOut */
>  ...
>SayBro like, this is some rad shit, so CheckItOut
>  ...

Like wow man.  But.

#define OhShit Unfortunately
/* OhShit, under ANSI C, this will NOT BE ALLOWED TO WORK!!!!!!!! */

Under ANSI C, each comment is changed into a single space before
preprocessor directives and macro replacements are performed.
So, "/* <newline> #define CheckItOut */" gets zapped.

Furthermore, if you manage to construct a macro "SayBro" which changes
into "/*"  (which is possible to do), then the "/*" hangs around in
the post-preprocessed code.  So it turns into a divide operator followed
by an indirection operator.  You can't win.

-- 
Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work)
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