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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Standardized predefined CPP symbols, down with folklore
Message-ID: <4842@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 02:52:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4842
Posted: Mon Jul  9 02:52:23 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Jul-84 03:32:59 EDT
References: <2065@rlgvax.UUCP>  <142@pyuxt.UUCP>  <8241@watmath.UUCP> <297@watdcsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (& Sherman)
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <297@watdcsu.UUCP> geo@watdcsu.UUCP (Geo Swan) writes:
~|\I agree with the need for standards.
~|\Further, these standards should be properly documented.
~|\I learned that cpp automatically sharp defined "unix",
~|\when I tried to declare a variable named "unix".  (Try it sometime.)

Actually, it wouldn't matter if the implementors had had the sense
to have cpp implcitly "#define unix unix", instead of "#define unix 1".
The first would still permit all "#ifdef unix" work, while the actual
implementation caused me grief one day when I tried to create a
function called unix()

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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