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Re: Macro Expansion

From Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Macro Expansion
Date 2017-01-31 08:51 -0800
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:

> On Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 11:56:05 PM UTC-6, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>> supercat writes:
>>> The language was in wide use prior to the Standard, and the
>>> Committee decided that it should try to come up with a single set
>>> of rules which was consistent with as many implementations as
>>> possible, [...]
>>
>> Your view of the history is mistaken.  See the Rationale
>> document.
>
> You mean this part?
>
> | The X3J11 charter clearly mandates the Committee to codify
> | common existing practice.  The Committee has held fast to
> | precedent wherever this was clear and unambiguous.  The vast
> | majority of the language defined by the Standard is precisely
> | the same as is defined in Appendix A of The C Programming
> | Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, and as is
> | implemented in almost all C translators.  (This document
> | is hereinafter referred to as K&R.)

No I meant this part:

| Existing code is important, existing implementations are not.

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Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 18:35 +0000
  Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 11:23 -0800
    Re: Macro Expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-07 21:28 +0000
  Re: Macro Expansion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-07 11:45 -0800
    Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 20:16 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-07 12:23 -0800
        Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 20:31 +0000
          Re: Macro Expansion Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2017-01-07 12:42 -0800
          Re: Macro Expansion Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-08 14:42 +1300
            Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 13:18 +0000
  Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 20:15 +0000
    Re: Macro Expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-07 20:42 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 22:50 +0000
        Re: Macro Expansion Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-01-08 11:59 +1300
          Re: Macro Expansion Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-01-07 15:10 -0800
        Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-07 17:24 -0800
          Re: Macro Expansion Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-01-15 21:55 -0800
            Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-16 09:06 -0800
              Re: Macro Expansion Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-01-31 08:51 -0800
                Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-31 13:06 -0800
                Re: Macro Expansion Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-02-03 07:49 -0800
                Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-02-03 12:03 -0800
                Re: Macro Expansion Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-02-09 09:00 -0800
        Re: Macro Expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-08 01:37 +0000
          Re: Macro Expansion Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2017-01-08 10:22 +0100
  Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 12:18 -0800
    Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 20:28 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 12:36 -0800
        Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-07 22:59 +0000
  Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-08 00:20 -0800
    Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 13:30 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-10 14:00 +0000
        Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-01-10 07:43 -0800
          Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-10 17:47 +0000
            Re: Macro Expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-10 22:49 +0000
              Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-10 23:28 +0000
              Re: Macro Expansion "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-01-10 18:51 -0500
                Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-11 00:06 +0000
          Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-10 20:30 +0000
            Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 10:04 -0700
              Re: Macro Expansion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-26 12:00 -0700
                Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 12:24 -0700
              Re: Macro Expansion bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-26 20:12 +0100
                Re: Macro Expansion Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 12:34 -0700
                Re: Macro Expansion jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-04-26 13:46 -0700
  Re: Macro Expansion Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2017-01-08 10:13 +0100
    Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 13:10 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2017-01-08 15:51 +0100
        Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 17:17 +0000
          Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-08 11:04 -0800
            Re: Macro Expansion Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-01-08 11:10 -0800
              Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-08 14:08 -0800
            Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 19:49 +0000
              Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-08 14:17 -0800
          Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 19:19 +0000
          Re: Macro Expansion Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2017-01-08 21:43 +0100
      Re: Macro Expansion supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-01-08 10:43 -0800
      Re: Macro Expansion Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-01-08 12:39 -0800
  Re: Macro Expansion antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-01-08 22:54 +0000
    Re: Macro Expansion "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-01-08 18:36 -0500
      Re: Macro Expansion antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-01-09 01:15 +0000
        Re: Macro Expansion "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-01-08 20:49 -0500
    Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-08 23:53 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-09 01:11 +0000
      Re: Macro Expansion antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2017-01-09 01:31 +0000
        Re: Macro Expansion BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-01-10 11:28 +0000

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