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From: rjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: #define kinda stuff
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Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 09:30:24 EST
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In article <1458@cwruecmp.UUCP> ryan@cwruecmp.UUCP (Ryan McGuire) writes:

>
>    O.K. all you people out there who think you know everything, I got
>one for ya:
>
>    Here's what I wanna do:
>
>#define (-: /*
>#define :-) */
>
>    Obviously I want to make (-: and :-) my comment delimiters.  One problem,
>     [etc]
>						Thanks
>						Ryan McGuire


I don't believe you can do it (portably, anyhow) with the C Preprocessor,
but if you send your program thru m4 (macro preprocessor) first, you should
be able to do it.
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