gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (08/03/86)
It should be pointed out that merely not conforming to K&R was not the reason that macro replacement inside strings is being disallowed; the real practical problem was that several independent compiler developers used K&R as a guide, so their compilers don't allow such replacement. If all existing compilers had been one way or the other, undoubtedly that way would have been adopted for the standard. However, given a conflict like this, weight is given to what K&R said.