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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran could learn from C
Message-ID: <7358@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 Feb 88 00:14:32 GMT
References: <42586@sun.uucp> <1988Feb25.191646.7580@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: X3J3 Fortran Draft cpp

In article <1988Feb25.191646.7580@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Beware of one fine point, though:  X3J11 is *not* requiring that the
>preprocessor be available independently of the rest of the compiler.
>(They considered it but decided it was outside their jurisdiction.)

More to the point, it makes sense to integrate preprocessing with other
phases of lexical analysis, and there are existing C implementations
that do this.