Re: Macros get expanded in comments..

["Kenneth Porter" <shiva well com>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:44:22 -0500 (CDT), Tim Mooney wrote:

>>After a bit of hair pulling I found that the commented out macro
>>definition is acting as if not commented out after all.  Is this
>>a bug or a feature?  If the latter, how can I get the desired
>>operation?
>
>It's not a bug.  See past discussion on this list regarding this issue.
>%define is context free, unlike what you may be used to with cpp et. al.

Ok, I can understand %define being evaluated inside quoted strings and
can see how it would get into the false side of an %if clause from a
coding oversight, but why in comments? Why aren't comments stripped out
before macro processing? Under what conditions would it be useful to
evaluate a macro expression in a comment?

Ken
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