Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 19:59:29 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=), rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: #if instead of .if Message-ID: <9504260159.AA03716@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504260046.SAA23052@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Apr 25, 95 06:46:01 pm
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> : 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. > > That is done because cpp on some systems whines loudly or refuses to > work when you don't have a valid directive name after the #. It has > little to do with the comment directive duality. > > In fact, many languages use this: > 1) Dec Fortran has CDEC xxx in column 1 (a comment by any > other name... > 2) lint has /*NOTREACHED*/ Lint has a hell of a lot more than that! I guess you could argue precedent, if we had lint. ;^). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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