preprocessor fun

[Henry Spencer]

In article <9095 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>The goal is to ensure that when
>
>	#if __STDC__ > 1
>	#directive_present_in_C94_though_not_in_C89
>	#endif /* __STDC__ > 1 */
>
>gets written some time in 1985, the "right thing" happens on pre-'84 compilers.

However, the line about the # punctuator only appearing in preprocessor
directives strongly suggests that this wasn't the intent of the person
who wrote that; the above is legal only through a loophole (# doesn't
have to be a punctuator).  There seems to be some confusion about intent.
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