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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: why has Cray dropped CPP support from cf77?
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.035700.14997@convex.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:57:00 GMT
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From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
:In article <1991Feb21.223542.24085@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
:Exactly what behavior are you preserving anyway? The ability to
:substitute inside strings? Glue tokens together with /**/?
:Not complain about trailing noncomments on # lines?

Well, besides those things, there's this:

sub foo {
	    # ask for more

under old cpp, this was legal.  Under ansi it is not.  Perl, however, 
now avoids letting cpp see those lines.  I've afraid to look at how. :-)

I think RBJ is being rather cavalier in his "let's break the old code"
approach.  What are you, a standards committee member or something? :-)

--tom
-- 
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
 that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn

 Tom Christiansen                tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist