Wacky Programming Tales

Eric Bohlman ebohlman at netcom.com
Thu Aug 19 17:12:56 EDT 1999


Mark W. Schumann (catfood at apk.net) wrote:
: I've seen
: 
: #define ARBEGIN {
: #define AREND   }
: 
: in Clipper (a somewhat C-ish language in this regard) code.
: 
: Eh?

In Clipper, curly braces are used as anonymous array constructors, so 
those mnemonics are presumably short for "array begin" and "array end."





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