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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C and comment preprocessing
Message-ID: <3303@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 91 20:52:03 GMT
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Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
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[ Tried to yank back Blair's article on the ANSI implementation of
  comments, but rn bletched (no rn flames, please!). ]

If comments are expanded to spaces, this kind of breaks things like

#define	operate_with(x) \
	dbm_put(p->pw_/**/e); \
	munge_data(p->pw_/**/e, munge_factor[1]); \
	login->pw_/**/e = p->pw_/**/e;

doesn't it?

How does ANSI token-pasting work? (DON'T say RTFM because I don't *have*
TFM!)  Is is something similar to what I've provided above as an example?

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