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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Making the preprocessor substitute a '#'
Message-ID: <13908@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Sep 90 21:35:26 GMT
References: <6261@castle.ed.ac.uk> <28540:Sep1819:40:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
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In article <28540:Sep1819:40:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
-In article <6261@castle.ed.ac.uk> keith@earth.ox.ac.uk writes:
-> Is there any way of defining a macro in an ANSI preprocessor which
-> substitutes  a '#' plus some other text.  That is, I want to say
-> #define FOO  # pragma bar
-Why not just leave out the # and use it as #FOO?

Because it doesn't work, perhaps?