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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C's Limited Macro Capabilities
Message-ID: <11739@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Dec 89 05:32:51 GMT
References: <69517@psuecl.bitnet>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <69517@psuecl.bitnet> bpm@psuecl.bitnet (Brian Moquin) writes:
>This is not legal C, but if it were I think it would enhance the power
>of macro expansions significantly.  Thoughts?

My thought is that it's irrelevant.
C's preprocessing facilities were never meant to serve as a general
macro processing language.