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From: Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no>
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Subject: Re: Style Police (a rant)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:04:44 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2011-09-11, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> Many years ago I saw a person that liked Pascal do the following
> in C:
>
> #define begin {
> $define end }

The Bourne shell source code is notorious for this apparently.

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h

Bent.
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