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From: jmartin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin)
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Subject: Re: C++ Envy
Date: 25 Jan 1995 15:47:39 -0800
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Date: 1995-01-25T15:47:39-08:00
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The "infinite" powers of C/C++ allows us to guard against the evil
private->public redefinition, by placing the following in every
include file.

#ifdef private
  Warning! Warning! Idiot Alert!  (@)][$#@##$#$@^^^%$#%##!@)
#endif

(Hopefully won't compile or be defined into something that does,
  you never know with C)

Surely the C preprocessor must be the most powerful invention ever
created by mankind!  Snicker Jay.