Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost] Message-ID: <7076@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Nov 89 20:49:11 GMT References: <11134@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <15217@haddock.ima.isc.com> <3060@splut.conmicro.com> <956@sdrc.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 Someone remind me of the motivation for a tokenising preprocessor instead of the old text-based preprocessor again. It's sounding more and more like a whole lot of work for little gain... (maybe it's time to dust `m4' off again) -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11 had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it." -- Tom Neff