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From: gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim)
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Subject: Re: Possible bug in class preprocessor
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Date: 10 Aug 90 16:48:10 GMT
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Excerpts from misc: 8-Aug-90 Possible bug in class prepr.. Mark
Turner@rchland.ibm. (1204+0)

> I don't know if data is a reserved word, and if so, I could live with
> it.  However, there are classes in the distribution  (list, for example)
> which use the word 'data' in their macro definitions.

> So is this a bug?

From the bugs database located in andrew/bugs.open:

    ID: 1015
    Keyword: class
    Subject: possible bug
    Priority: 2
    Description:  There is a bug in the class preprocessor when the
    word 'data' is used in macromethods.  The macro which gets
    created in the corresponding .ih file is incorrect.  

Yep.  This does have to do with the fact that the word data is used to
begin the data-specification portion of a class header file.  It needs
to be fixed.  For now avoid that usage.

Gary