From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Frank Klemm <pfk@fuchs.offl.uni-jena.de>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:22:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010927162209.M442@codesourcery.com>
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:07:55PM +0200, Frank Klemm wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:17:40AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 2001, Frank Klemm <pfk@fuchs.offl.uni-jena.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > For instance try to convert 
> > 
> > >    #define MILLION	MY_MERGE_5 ( 1, _, 000, _, 000 )
> > 
> > If you're going down this road, I'd rather just do
> > 
> > #define MILLION MERGE3(1, 000, 000)
> > 
> > where
> > 
> > #define MERGE3(a,b,c) a##b##c
> > 
> Everyone misinterprets this example.
> 
> This is not an example to write 'grouped' numbers.
> 
> It is an example what must be forbidden to be able to write a filter program
> which removes '_' from numbers.

Nonsense.  Your filter program can simply sit between the preprocessor
and the compiler.

zw