Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: unicode Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:02:19 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 24 Message-ID: <9sot67l0tg6nccokdf01i20a4bi1dcaeld@4ax.com> References: <6c991195-ab57-417c-92e0-6d5ee1c451dc@dq7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4e6e7a2a$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7956 On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:33:14 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > > >> And I would not use the term preprocessor - it is Java not C. > > >I've always heard this part of the Java compiler described as a >preprocessor. Is there some other documentation that refers to it >differently? the expansion is done logically ahead of the parse. That is exactly what a preprocessor is. I did not say it WAS a preprocessor, just like one. Java can have preprocessors. It is just there is not a single official one. Consider JSP and brethren. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)