Subject: Re: `sun' and sparc/sun3's (was: Re: Diaspora, politics, and MI)
To: None <greywolf@siva.captech.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/21/1996 08:07:00
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:10:06 -0700
> From: greywolf@siva.captech.com (Grey Wolf)
> 
> # 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..."

Well, it might need to be:
#define unix (unix)

but nonetheless, it's a cute idea.