Macro replacement in argument substitution

David Adrien Tanguay datanguay at watmath.waterloo.edu
Fri Nov 17 00:09:45 AEST 1989


 In article <11555 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
 >In this case, you and I initially read the blue-paint provision one
 >way, while Dave and the example indicate that we should have read it
 >as saying ALL blue paint persists until the end of the expansion.
 >
 >If this had come up during the public review, I would have argued
 >for clarification of the specification, to avoid the problem we
 >just had in understanding the intention.

Actually, it did. See the second round comments from Peter Fraser
(University of Waterloo). Like Dave, we used the examples to resolve
the problem you're discussing here, and provided a different example
of a nesting problem to draw attention to the shady wording.

David Tanguay



More information about the Comp.std.c mailing list