From -8215385148712568343 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fbc32fc9914fa748,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: "Fran�ois-Xavier Callewaert" Subject: Preprocessor directive and newline Date: 2000/12/07 Message-ID: <90onv1$dci$1@front7.grolier.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 702274298 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Priority: 3 X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 976217260 mail2news:1820 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: Club-Internet (France) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Fran�ois-Xavier Callewaert" NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Dec 2000 19:21:05 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Why does the standard C++ require that a preprocessor directive be the only "thing" on a line(16.1) ? I can readily understand why it should be the last "thing" on a line, but why should it also be the first ? Appart from the fact that the following line of code is probably harder to read then the legal alternative is it somehow bad ? void func(); #define BAR Thanks for any enlightenment --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ]