Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   Basically, preprocessor macro expansion should never create new tokens
> > unless the token pasting operator (##) is explicitly used to do so. However,
> > Microsoft's C preprocessor doesn't take this into account at all.

> I see. I can see where that would (A) really annoy and confuse people 
> expecting the standard behavior and (B) would really annoy people who relied 
> on it if it got changed. :-) All the more reason to make sure stuff works 
> before releasing it.

  I have really hard time believing that they aren't fixing it because they
don't want to break existing programs. I can't think of a rational situation
where you would *want* the buggy behavior of the preprocessor. It can only
be used for obfuscating code (for example, you don't expect something like
"-x" to really mean "--something_else"; that would be obfuscating beyond
belief).

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                                                          - Warp

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