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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro sustitution inside quotes
Message-ID: <3155@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 17:44:14 GMT
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>Whereas:
>
>    #define string(s)	"s"
>
>evaluates in the way you would expect.

In other words, it evaluates to the string

	"s"

i.e., a one-character string containing the letter "s"?  That's what a
reader of K&R would expect; too bad their expectations are dashed on
systems like UNIX that use the Reiser preprocessor.  (Reference: K&R I,
Appendix A "C Reference Manual", p. 207: "Text inside a string or a
character constant is not subject to replacement.")