Target deprecation, round three

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Feb-2003, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> There are four possible ways to get around this problem:
> 
> - Replace all these character constants with integer or enumeration
>   constants.  I consider this infeasible, it would make these parts of
>   the compiler much harder to maintain.

Well, sure, don't use integer constants directly, use #defines!

I don't see why e.g.

	if (c == SLASH_CHAR)

is so much harder to maintain than

	if (c == '/')

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