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From: wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you use "if ( a = b )"?
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.122448.5798@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 2 Apr 91 12:24:48 GMT
References: <15617@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Mar29.195622.321@worf.harvard.edu> <1991Mar30.155003.5775@cc.helsinki.fi> <10654@uwm.edu>
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In article <10654@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
> [about converting syntax-changing macros into cleartext]
> I use my own scanner-based program to alter variable names and macros in other
> peoples' source all the time.  It's nothing.

It's unnecessary, nonproductive extra work. That's the whole point. 
-- 
Lars Wirzenius    wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi