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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ipse dixit)
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Subject: Re: #define kinda stuff
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Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 23:29:29 EST
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>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.

Nope, unfortunately, m4 only substitutes for identifiers, i.e.
letter{letter,digit}*.

	Ken
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