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Subject: Re: Spam: Can macros be expanded only during the start of a
 program?
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From: Falk Hueffner <hueffner@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:52:00 -0000
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<snodx@hotmail.com> writes:

> I am looking into the problem. However I just wanted to know one
> thing (a newbie question you could say), just as in between a set of
> statements you cant declare a new variable by saying "int x" or
> something is it also the case that macros can only be expanded only
> at the declaration-of-variables stage?

No.

-- 
	Falk