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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: #define CTRL(x) followup
Message-ID: <5396@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 23:46:00 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5396
Posted: Fri Nov 14 23:46:00 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 00:11:42 EST
References: <7136@elsie.UUCP> <779@valid.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <779@valid.UUCP> sbs@valid.UUCP (Steven Brian McKechnie Sargent) writes:
>Guess I came into the discussion late.  What's wrong with the Reiser
>treatment (it's always worked for me)?  Sounds like if it doesn't work
>in ANSI, then ANSI is breaking its own "don't break working code" rule.

Unfortunately the Reiser CPP didn't follow the rules in K&R,
whereas many other C compilers did.  No matter what was chosen
for this issue, some "working code" was going to break.