Macro sustitution inside quotes

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1457 at tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond at tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond at tkovoa) writes:
>True.  But Reiser's inventions were easier to understand, easier to use,
>easier to implement, and less surprising than ANSI's inventions.  ANSI
>should have done less work.

Had Reiser never violated the constraints in K&R1 against macro expansion
in strings and character constants, there would be no discussion.  All
ANSI did in this case was reitterate what K&R1 says already.

This is one area [ other than their work in token pasting ] where ANSI
did not "invent" anything.
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