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From: cudcv@daisy.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Quote without comment on char constant expansion
Message-ID: <522@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Apr 88 14:01:43 GMT
References: <4418@hoptoad.uucp> <3432@haddock.ISC.COM> <7677@brl-smoke.ARPA> <11056@mimsy.UUCP> <7683@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: cudcv@cu.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <7683@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <11056@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>perhaps there should be a `charize' operator.
>
>It's been voted down (back when we hadn't settled on # and ## yet).
>There has been a comment that &"..." should be allowed in constant
>expressions.

Maybe now that # & ## have been settled on, it's time for another vote ?
It seems it ought to be there just for consistency, and it would provide
a much cleaner solution than this #c[0] as a constant (is that right ?).
Out of interest, what were the arguments against it ?

Rob


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