Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: syntactical convenience
Message-ID: <1988Mar13.005515.12650@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8803111620.AA27066@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 88 00:55:15 GMT

> A more important addition, and a surprising lack in the standard, is the
> preprocessor, which doesn't allow inserting preprocessing directives. Our
> standards rep had no good arguments against adding the capability, which is
> no harder to implement...

Not all implementors would agree.
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry