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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: preprocessor fun
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Date: 10 Apr 89 05:45:16 GMT
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In article <1989Apr7.192628.4547@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>	#ifdef notdef
>	#hahafooledyou
>	#endif

>Show me where it says that the middle line is a directive at all.
>I claim that it is two preprocessing tokens which do not happen to be a
>directive.  Nowhere does the Oct. draft say that *only* directives can
>begin with "#", or that all lines starting with "#" are directives.

The third line is also two preprocessing tokens.  Yup, a vendor can sell
a compiler that does lots of unexpected things, and point out that it
conforms to the standard.  Let's let the vendor pay her development
costs and take her choice; customers have choices too.

Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
  The above opinions are my own.   |  Why are programmers criticized for
  If they're also your opinions,   |  re-inventing the wheel, when car
  you're infringing my copyright.  |  manufacturers are praised for it?