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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
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 18:03:47 1985
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Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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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
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Of COURSE we can implement your algorithm.  We've got this Turing
machine emulator...