Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI C token set (including $ and @)
Message-ID: <1989Jan23.201114.11178@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 20:11:14 GMT

In article <9470@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>It's still the case that $ is not going to appear in foo$bar
>context in a strict conforming application...

I repeat a previous comment:  as far as I can tell, there is no rule saying
that a strictly-conforming program can't use $ in this context, provided
that it disappears (or hides inside a string or whatever) before the end
of preprocessing.  I do believe that appearance of such a character in a
context where it isn't being ignored *ought* to make a program non-strictly-
conforming, but I cannot find anything in the Oct draft that *says* this.
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