Statement terminators

[Badri Lokanathan]

>In article <2296 at mit-caf.MIT.EDU> vlcek at mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jim Vlcek) writes:
>> In fact, I myself would lean the other direction and prefer that
>> macros not follow the strict ``to the next newline'' rule, but rather
>> have a more explicit means of terminating the definition body.

In article <1843 at ubu.warwick.UUCP> geoff at cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
>I agree that it can be *very* annoying having to backquote all the
>newlines in macros (take a look at "putc" in stdio.h !)  But how else
>could cpp be designed so it knows when to stop?  By matching the
>parentheses/ brackets & braces?

One could have a default set of delimiters that can be modified on the
fly (as in sed pattern matching, for instance)

Say the default is ^
#define Foo ^your macro^
But if your macro contains ^, then modify by
#define Foo @your macro@

cpp can easily be designed to recognize the first non-white character as a
delimiter ...
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