C++ alternative tokens in the preprocessor

Matt Minnis mminnis@prefres.com
Tue Jul 18 15:01:00 GMT 2000


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> > | > a.cc:1:9: "and" is not a legal macro name in C++

Interesting point.

>At IBM, we never used 'invalid' because it tends to get
>translated as 'physically challenged'.

Perhaps 'not valid' would be better?

Thanks,

Matt
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