> # From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> #
> # Curt Sampson writes:
> # > No, what he's saying is that if we have `#define unix 1' predefined
> # > (as we do now), someone who tries to compile the perfectly legal
> # > statement `int unix = 0;' will actually be trying to compile `int
> # > 1 = 0;', which will not go over terribly well.
> # 
> # Perhaps we should
> # #define unix unix
> # 
> 
> To quote something once said to me:
> 
> "Folks, I think we have a winner here..."

Except for the fact that that the 'unix' definition is still in the
user's namespace.

They should be able to e.g. re-#define it, as if they were defining it
for the first time, etc.


in other words, "wrong."


cgd