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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: C-mode indentation weirdness
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Date: 7 Apr 88 13:29:50 GMT
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>>(And for those of you who scream, "You can't have function calls on
>>the case line!", you are only half wrong.  Remember that MACROS can
>>look like function calls.)
>
>Well, of course you can you use macros to bastardize the language in almost
>any way you please, including your example of using things that look like
>function calls as labels in a switch statement. Why should a C-code indenter
>be expected to deal with your mangled syntax, since it is not C?

But it *is* C.  A common instance of the usage of macros with
arguments in switch statements is the processing of control characters
using the ubiquitous CTRL, CTL, Ctl, et cetera.

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