macro substitution in character literals

[diamond@tkovoa]

In article <14683 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <11323 at pt.cs.cmu.edu> mbj at natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Jones) writes:
>>Is there an equivalent for character literals?
>There is no analogous "charize" operator.
(True, of course.)
 
>It was deemed to be significantly
>less useful than "stringizing", and did not have enough supporters to make
>it into the standard.
 
You mean it was not an oversight, that it was deliberate?
Well, we certainly see evidence over and over again on the net.
"The reports of our non-existence are greatly exaggerated."
 
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Norman Diamond       diamond at tkov50.enet.dec.com
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