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Subject: Re: Preprocessor Trickery - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 30-Jun-84 00:46:16 EDT
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#R:arizona:-1236100:inmet:5000019:000:403
inmet!rgh    Jun 28 14:01:00 1984

There's no portable way to use C #define's to introduce new tokens into
a program, since macro replacement is defined in terms of token strings
in K&R [C RefMan 12.1].  This issue -- character string vs. token string
macros -- came up at the most recent C ANSI standards committee meeting,
and the token string viewpoint prevailed. 

			    Randy Hudson
			    {harpo, ihnp4, decvax!cca!ima} !inmet!rgh