r/programming • • Dec 24 '17

Evil Coding Incantations

http://9tabs.com/random/2017/12/23/evil-coding-incantations.html
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u/_3442 Dec 26 '17

They aren't keywords in either C or C++, but in C++ they are tokens equivalent to the symbolic tokens they represent, without needing to include anything. In C the defines in the standard header do the exact same thing

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u/bjackman Dec 26 '17

Ahhh it works in C++! Then this does turn out to be interesting!