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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro sustitution inside quotes
Message-ID: <1285@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 22:22:00 GMT
References: <636@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1281@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <1457@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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In article <1457@tkou02.enet.dec.com>, diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
> 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.

Well, yes, if you're already familiar with them!  I find it very
hard to believe that any who wasn't familiar with these [ bugs |
features ] wouldn't be very surprised to run across them and have
a hard time understanding them.  Nor can I believe that either is
easier to use or implement, although I will grant you that using
# and ## is pretty disgusting.

"What?!?  The preprocessor looks INSIDE STRINGS?  But it doesn't
replace macros inside strings.  Oh, just parameters?  Huh."

"What?!?  The preprocessor makes comments completely disappear?
But I thought that comments were supposed to be the same as
blanks!  You mean that if I stick a comment in without putting
spaces around it the things on each side get pasted together?
Ick!"
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