Re: I tried to turn on C preprocessor

[S. Alexander Jacobson]

In fairness, I was not compiling w/ +98.  
Having changed over, I got correct behavior.
-Alex-

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Alastair Reid wrote:

> 
> [Moved to hugs-bugs]
> 
> > Ok that worked well.  Now I am being told that "with" is a reserved word.
> > Any idea why/what that is?
> > It obviously is not reserved by whatever compiler Malcolm Wallace is
> > developing with.
> 
> Slap on the wrists for Jeff Lewis and co-conspirators - they added 2
> new keywords (see "Implicit parameters" in the "Hugs Extensions"
> section of the Hugs manual) but didn't turn them off when you use hugs
> +98 (or just hugs since +98 is default).  You could turn it off by
> recompiling Hugs with the symbol IPARAM undefined (not clear if this
> can be done via config or by editing the Makefile or ...).  If you
> have Microsoft's compiler, you could give this a shot - instructions
> on building Hugs are in the Install file at the top of the Hugs source
> tree.
> 
> A second slap for grabbing a common English word (with).  The other
> keyword (dlet) will probably not be missed.  If there's no
> less-intrusive alternative, the (quite disgusting but unavoidable)
> hack used to let us us "as", "hiding" and "qualified" as keywords
> without making them reserved is probably the thing to do.
> 
> Meanwhile, the quick fix is obvious enough:
> 
>   gcc -xc -E -traditional -Dwith=thisIsNotAReservedWord
> 
> 
> A
> 

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