Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 23:12:22 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: #if instead of .if Message-ID: <199504220612.XAA03811@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199504220519.WAA00942@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> (rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com)
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* I do not have an answer for this, it was something done at CSRG. It would * be a major rework to change it though! # is already used for comments. If you don't want to get into trouble with things like #if you don't think this is confusing, you are not thinking :p you can't use #. See how much trouble the X/imake folks go through (use XCOMM in their Imakefile, which are replaced with # for Makefile, ugh) to avoid this problem. Satoshi
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