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20 Apr 2024 09:31:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Github repository with useful macros  
From: jr
Date: 22 May 2021 20:35:00
Message: <web.60a9a222985098ff79819d986cde94f1@news.povray.org>
hi,

William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 5/22/21 12:13 PM, jr wrote:
>> ...  did I misread yr point?
>
> :-) Suppose, I think so. We want the #ifndef to only look at the tokens
> passed on the macro call.

the documentation is pretty .. explicit on optional macro args and "reliable"
testing requiring 'local.' (dictionary) -- highlighted box.


> The code can of course be correct, my point is
> the option checking code can be wrong - thereby allowing definitions
> into the macro by a path other than the call parameters/tokens.

I was surprised to see there's a way to "smuggle" an undeclared identifier into
a macro, but yeah, "caveat emptor", as BE might say.  :-)


regards, jr.


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