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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro sustitution inside quotes
Message-ID: <18213@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 11 Apr 90 12:58:01 GMT
References: <636@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1281@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <12534@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1284@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <7722@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1457@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
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In article <1457@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>True.  But Reiser's inventions were easier to understand, easier to use,
>easier to implement, and less surprising than ANSI's inventions.  ANSI
>should have done less work.

Had Reiser never violated the constraints in K&R1 against macro expansion
in strings and character constants, there would be no discussion.  All
ANSI did in this case was reitterate what K&R1 says already.

This is one area [ other than their work in token pasting ] where ANSI
did not "invent" anything.
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