RE: [sv-bc] white space at the end of macro text

From: Bresticker, Shalom <shalom.bresticker_at_.....>
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 07:08:18 PST
Strictly, you could not just omit the quotes around York. Then it would
not be a valid expression, which the BNF in principle requires. See
Mantis 1333.

Shalom


> Something similar came up recently with a user, but involving a
> macro
> argument.  As an example:
> 
> `define foo(a) `"New a Mets`"
> 
> `foo("York")
> 
> After expansion, this results in `" followed by ", which is
> what you
> were asking about.  In this example, you could just omit the
> quotes
> around York.  Apparently in the original example, the argument
> string
> included commas.  Leaving the quotes off would cause the
> argument to
> be treated as multiple comma-separated arguments.
Received on Tue Mar 21 07:10:26 2006

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