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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Small introspective program
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.193803.12489@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 19:38:03 GMT
References: <1991Mar10.231230.1301@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Mar12.050929.2870@research.canon.oz.au> <SCOTTH.91Mar12125443@harlie.corp.sgi.com> <1991Mar13.001423.5194@Think.COM> <DQ.90AA@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <DQ.90AA@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Better make the indicated changes or watch it barf on a strict ANSI
>compiler.
>
>! #ifdef notdef /*

Why?  That is legal, strict ANSI C he had inside the #ifdef.

In general you can't get away with arbitrary trash in there, but nothing
he did was improper.  (If you're upset about the $ and `, they are
unlawful only when transformed from preprocessor tokens to real tokens,
and that never happens in this case.)
-- 
"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
for the general public."     -S. Harris |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry