On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:08:48 GMT, "James Kuyper Jr."
<kuyper@wizard.net> wrote:

>I'll grant you - if I didn't already know what was meant, I might have
>trouble figuring that out from the somewhat obscure wording.
>
Heheee...thanks! The trouble I had... that because I didn't know that
the process actually takes place in two conceptually distinct steps.
Anyway I should have understand it by reading also the other
preprocessing clauses... what to say? Shame on me! :-(

I apologize with you if now I make another (very silly) question (I'm
a curious kind of guy):

   16.3p9: "The parameters are specified by the optional list of
identifiers, whose scope extends from their declaration in the
identifier list until the new-line character that terminates the
#define preprocessing directive."

Together with 16.3p5 this is the only point I found where the standard
uses the term "declaration" referred to macro parameters. Since it's
meaning is of course very different from that of an ordinary
declaration and (as far as I know) no clause defines it, shouldn't
have been better solution to say, for instance.:

"The scope of each parameter from the point of it's first lexical
occurrence within the identifier-list until the new-line ...." ?

 I do not pretend it to be a precise wording: it's just a sample. I'd
just like to know if you agree in avoiding the term declaration at
all...

  Thanks again! :-)
   Genny.



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