Re: Syntax errors with the "space-before-paren" style in Ruby and SWIG

David James wrote:
> On 2/3/06, Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>David James wrote:
[...]

Thanks for the info.

> If you declare a SWIG macro using %define, you need to declare it
> without spaces. You also need to avoid spaces when you use the macro.
> This is similar to the restrictions of the C preprocessor.

Somewhat similar, but different.

>>As for the C preprocessor, I believe the only issue is that the definition of a
>>macro taking parameters can't have a space before the open parenthesis; we
>>already know and accept that so it's not an issue that causes any problems. Am
>>I wrong?
>
> No, that's right. The only issue here is that if we're reformatting
> function calls, we'll have to be careful to avoid reformatting usages
> of macros that look like function calls.

What I meant to emphasise is that, for the C preprocessor, it only matters at
the point of definition of macros, not at their usage ("calls").

- Julian

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Received on Sun Feb 5 03:10:40 2006