[comp.lang.c] Meaning of "#define-"

johnro@microsoft.UUCP (John Rogers) (07/15/89)

Hi!  I've been browsing through C code that's been posted to the
net recently, and I've noticing something I don't understand.  A
couple of times, I've seen something like this:

#define- FLARP whatever

complete with the hyphen immediately after the "#define".  (I know I've
seen this in the NN patches that were just posted, and I think I noticed
this somewhere else on Usenet in the last week.)

What questions are:

(1) What does this mean (if anything)?

(2) What dialects is it legal in?

(3) Does this comply with the pANS?

Thanks in advance, as they say, and happy hacking!

gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (07/15/89)

In article <45@microsoft.UUCP> johnro@microsoft.UUCP (John Rogers) writes:
>#define- FLARP whatever

I don't know what the hyphen is supposed to mean, but it's not
standard C (either K&R or ANSI).