Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Fortran could learn from C
Message-ID: <1988Mar3.182901.756@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: X3J3 Fortran Draft cpp
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <42586@sun.uucp> <1988Feb25.191646.7580@utzoo.uucp> <7358@brl-smoke.ARPA>, <3872@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 18:29:01 GMT

> I don't care if the preprocessing is integrated with the other phases of
> lexical analysis, just as long as it is possible for me to get the output
> from the preprocessor when I need it.  Will ANSI require that, or will it
> be implementation-dependent??

This is clearly an implementation issue, not a language issue, and X3J11
decided not to touch it.  You may, of course, wish to consider it when
deciding whether to buy a particular compiler.
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