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Re: Objective C lexer - small cleanup
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: Objective C lexer - small cleanup
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:35:01 -0700
- CC: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010629090939.X432@stanford.edu>
Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:59:09AM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> > Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> >
> > > Nothing stops the @ from being an acceptable leading character in an
> > > identifier, _and_ a token in its own right if it isn't followed by
> > > identifier characters.
> >
> > But how would you macro expand @foo? At present foo is expanded, but
> > "@foo" isn't a macro.
>
> It's my understanding that macro expansion after @ is only wanted for
> string constants. Stan?
That's right.
Stan