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Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes: > Please excuse my ignorance, but can someone tell me whether the code > here, inside the "#ifdef __cplusplus" conditional, is actually valid > C++? > > If so, that is some of the strangest syntax I've ever seen --- can you > really put a conditional which tests the values of macro arguments on > the *outside* of the macro? The scope of a macro's arguments extends > beyond its definition... It's completely broken-- I sent email about this a long time back when I was first complaining about using guile w/ C++. See: http://www.red-bean.com/guile/guile/2941.html from the archive. > Or was the author just feeling Martian that day? Must be. It's the weirdest attempted use of the preprocessor I've ever seen! Greg