Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: v05i053: A "safe" replacement for gets()
Message-ID: <493@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 17:48:22 GMT
References: <674@quintus.UUCP> <117@halcdc.UUCP> <468@auspex.UUCP> <122@halcdc.UUCP> <1988Nov22.170953.24489@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>|Say WHAT?  Works fine on all the compilers I know of.  "Preprocessor"
>>|macros don't require that you give the exact same amount of white space
>>|in the invocation as you gave in the definition...
>
>Definitions of parameterized macros ("function-like" macros in X3J11speak)
>have always been required to have the "(" immediately following the
>identifier.

And therefore, since uses of parameterized macros don't require that,
preprocessor macros don't require that you give the same amount of white
space in the invocation as you gave in the definition....