microsoft C considered stupid

[Chris Torek]

In article <1986Jun20.01:10:46.477 at utcs.uucp> flaps at utcs.uucp
(Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>1. They have instituted a pre-processor conditional of the form
>	#if defined(MANIFEST_CONSTANT).

They have not instituted it.  It has been around since V7, at
the latest.  It is quite useful; things like

	#if (defined(x) || defined(y)) && defined(z)

are fairly tricky (not to mention confusing) to write without this.
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