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From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C's Limited Macro Capabilities
Message-ID: <4602@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 8 Dec 89 01:08:45 GMT
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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?

Keep complex macro processing in macro processing languages, leave a
well-defined standard (well....) alone.  See m4.

Shucks, if it were up to me there wouldn't be a cpp at all.
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