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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: #define CTRL(x) followup (it can't be done in ANSI C)
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Date: Sat, 6-Dec-86 20:19:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  6 20:19:16 1986
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In article <3721@utcsri.UUCP>, greg@utcsri.UUCP writes:
>>Some people have suggested
>>  char repl.:	#define foo(a) 'a'		(#a)[0]
>
>Is it that hard to write CTRL('X') rather than CTRL(X), that you want
>to add a somewhat bizarre, difficult-to-support feature to a language
>that already has more than its fair share of weird? ...
>If you have lots of code with CTRL([) etc, in it, why not write a lex
>script to change it to the way it should have been written in the first
>place?

Hey, not all of us are lex wizards.  Some people even have trouble with
ed(1) !  (Using ed or [more efficiently] sed, or even awk, is the reasonable
way to go for the average Joe Hacker; why use a cannon to kill a gopher?)