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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]
Message-ID: <3060@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 19 Nov 89 01:36:58 GMT
References: <11134@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <15217@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1643@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11641@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <11641@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>pp-numbers work well for the
>intended purpose and cause problems only in very rare circumstances
>and only for programmers with an obsessive aversion to white space.

Uhm, Doug...does this mean that the behavior of a program differs with
the use or non-use of white space? Isn't this different from the rest of
C?

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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