range syntax for C

Jerry Schwarz uunet!lucid.com!jss
Thu Jan 2 16:29:50 PST 1992


 > 
 > We could fix the *^%&%&$^# ANSI C preprocessor and use ellipsis.
 > 

This is gratuitous X3J11 bashing.  The problem is not the preprocessor
issue,  but the maximal munch rule for lexing.  Even if you
said pp-token=token 0. would still be a legal token, so 0...MAX would
become 

        0. .. MAX

Jerry Schwarz








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