Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!arnold From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: ANSI proposal for preprocessor strings Message-ID: <468@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 18:03:47 EST Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.468 Posted: Sat Mar 9 18:03:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:44:39 EST References: <8768@brl-tgr.ARPA> <458@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <8986@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 16 Summary: In article <8986@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes: >The ANSI C standard wants to support TOKENIZED preprocessing. >The character-string based kludges possible with the Reiser CPP >do not fit into this concept. They can want anything they choose to, but C currently exists. My arguments are based, generally, on the precept "thou shalt not break existing code". I, too, WANT C to work in some ways differently than currently, but I'd fight anyone trying to put the changes I want into the standard. -- Ken Arnold ================================================================= Of COURSE we can implement your algorithm. We've got this Turing machine emulator...