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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]
Message-ID: <482@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 10:14:32 GMT
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In article <7076@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>(maybe it's time to dust `m4' off again)

Agreed! I'm teaching courses on C and following this discussion I'll
strongly recommend not to do too tricky things with the Preprocessor,
if you want portable code. Rather use a tool, which is more under your
control (sed, m4, awk, ...). Why not start a news group 'comp.lang.m4'?