Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxss.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!pyuxss!aaw From: aaw@pyuxss.UUCP (Aaron Werman) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: What Can't C Do? Message-ID: <294@pyuxss.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 09:14:50 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxss.294 Posted: Tue Mar 20 09:14:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 03:33:58 EST References: <6900@unc.UUCP> <178@harvard.UUCP>, <237@opus.UUCP>, <237@unisoft.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 9 Here is a neologism that I had wanted to add to C back in the seventies, when C wasn't considered the next COBOL: add a GENSYM to the preprocessor (you know, that macro in LISP/assemblers that creates a new, different identifier whenever invoked, allowing harrowing language additions) I shudder to think of it now, when it it is considered a reasonable applications development language. {harpo,houxm,ihnp4}!pyuxss!aaw Aaron Werman