Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!MLY.G.SHADES%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA From: MLY.G.SHADES%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Hygiene of #define DIR \"/usr/lib/news Message-ID: <8304@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:10:35 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8304 Posted: Wed Feb 13 03:10:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:18:44 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 10 re arthur olson'smsg about open ended string macros. this is non-portable and in direct contravention of the definition of what the pre-processor is supposed to do. the pre-processor is supposed to work with tokens only. half of a string is not a full token. this should generate an error message not concatenate two half strings. shades%mit-oz@mit-mc.arpa