[Greg Ewing]
>> #ifdef ...WINCE...
> ^^^^^
>
> I wonder if Microsoft foresaw that abbreviation when
> they chose the name CE...
Speaking of, for many GNU projects, we needed a pre-processor symbol to
represent DJGPP and other ports to MS-DOS and Windows, so someone (most
probably me) took `DOS' and `WIN' and concatenated them, yielding:
#if DOSWIN
...
It went for a few years. One day, we were asked by the FSF to avoid this
symbol, as it suggested that DOS may win in some way. At the time, this
surely meant a lot of places to change, I do not remember if we complied.
The fact is that I never had such a pun in head when I made the symbol...
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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