Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]

[Martin Weitzel]

In article <7076 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>(maybe it's time to dust `m4' off again)

Agreed! I'm teaching courses on C and following this discussion I'll
strongly recommend not to do too tricky things with the Preprocessor,
if you want portable code. Rather use a tool, which is more under your
control (sed, m4, awk, ...). Why not start a news group 'comp.lang.m4'?