[Gllug] Website developement

[David Freeman]

 --- Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 15 Jul 2001, Stig
Brautaset stipulated:
> > Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
> (If you want the preprocessor to act like you seem to want it to act,
> `cpp -traditional' is what you want.)
> 
> > anyway I do not use such combinations of letters.
> 
> I find ??' to be depressingly common; a sentence like
> 
> 'what the hell??' will trip over it, and then people whine because
> the
> system's saying that the string is unterminated. (Yes, even in a
> comment
> --- although, of course, in a comment you don't care what it looks
> like
> after expansion. You do care, though, about ??/ inside comments ---
> yes,
> really.)

how about "what the <--/*-->??<!--*/--> and compile with the -C option?

Thanks

D
 
> >                                                   Where do you use
> a
> > backslash in normal text? Rarely, I'm sure,
> 
> Er, *grasps at straws* DOS pathnames?
> 
> <P>This line ends the paragraph, thanks to C:\FOO\BAR\
> 
> <P>oops.
> 
> (Of course, this just goes to show that you should have used </P> ;)
> )
> 
> >> FWIW, the set of potentially #defined symbols is not bounded, so
> in
> >> order to work safely you must #undef every single word you intend
> to
> >> write before you use it. *All* of them. If you don't do that,
> you'll
> >> have a webpage preparation system that could be broken by moving
> it from
> >> one system to another, or by upgrading the compiler.
> > 
> > Again, as stated in another post, have a look at my webpage and
> look
> > at the complexity of it. 
> 
> I'm really trying to convince people here who might be responsible
> for
> larger sites to use a mechanism other than cpp; it works, but it's
> more
> pain than it's worth.
> 
> (Everyone should use a mix of /bin/sh, M4, Emacs Lisp, and Guile
> Scheme
> like me. Er, no, perhaps not.)
> 
> >> You never need to use # for anything, either?
> > 
> > Not to date, but # would suffice if I did. 
> 
> This lovely line has been commented on, but I'd really like to snarf
> it
> for a sig (anonymously, if you wish).
> 
> >> (No, you don't; GCC-2.95.4 isn't released yet. You probably have
> >> something from the head of the GCC-2.95 branch in CVS.)
> > 
> > That's correct, it is a debian pre-release.
> 
> I thought it'd be Debian; they're the only major distro that I know
> make
> a habit of this kind of thing (and normally they pick their moment to
> snatch from the branch head well, too).
> 
> >> >                 and that works like a charm.
> >> 
> >> Querulous and fragile, with unknown function and who knows what
> snakes
> >> lurking under the surface?
> 
> (Er, this was a description of magical charms, as depicted in most
> works
> of fantasy... reliable they are generally not.)
> 
> >> If you think that the preprocessor's behaviour on plain text is a
> good
> >> guide to its behaviour on C code, you are mistaken (because of the
> >> tokenization).
> > 
> > Ok, you have prooved your point, M$ is the way to go; I am stupid
> and
> 
> Er, no. I'm not trying to convince you, but random observers. Maybe
> I'm
> overdoing it (as usual). Experience with people going *way* too far
> ---
> i.e., experience with the hell that is imake --- has seared my
> wrinkly
> little soul.
> 
> -- 
> `I'm not sure whether libtool is an existence proof that you _can_
>  write a shell script that handles its arguments correctly, or a
>  demonstration that you may try but you are doomed to failure.'
>                                                        -- Zack
> Weinberg
> 
> 
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