quotes inside #if 0

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Sep 7 02:32:09 AEST 1989


In article <2014 at munnari.oz.au> ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>The compiler sees words like "don't" in the English text and snarls that
>these are unterminated character constants.  This used to be perfectly
>good C...

No, it used to be borderline C that some compilers would accept but some
wouldn't.  It is now definitely not legal C, X3J11 having cleared up most
of the borderline areas.
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