Statement terminators

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1843 at ubu.warwick.UUCP>, geoff at cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
> 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.

Me too...

> 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?

A new construct for multiline macros?

#begin Malloc(x)
	({char *tempptr=malloc(x);
		if (!tempptr) perror_("malloc failed");tempptr;})
#end

> (BTW this is only when I'm using gcc - so no flames!)

I think it's kind of cute, but then I get nostalgic over BCPL.
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