Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: is STC a good supplementary library for C? Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 00:34:54 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 02:34:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6e0317a773c6dba529c5a1af356cf75e"; logging-data="1255701"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vU/YTrgNntSizrk7I55ik" User-Agent: Pan/0.159 (Vovchansk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nWflibdnkJ6MgO+v/5TsT8MRmFw= Bytes: 1529 On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 16:35:52 -0000 (UTC), Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> Macros done by manipulating strings in a preprocessor are the wrong way >> to do them. >> >> The right way to do macros is at the AST level, like Lisp does them. > > Standard C preprocessors are already token-based instead of text-based > like prestandard ones were. Not what I said.