Weird Language Features

[Richard Heathfield]

Dave Cross wrote:
> 
> [Please watch the replies on this message as it's heavily
> cross-posted]

Noted.

> 
> I'm doing some comparisons on programming language features and I'd be
> very interested to know how you would handle the following scenarios
> in your programming language of choice.
> 
> 1/ The programmer calls a function that doesn't actually exist within
> the application (or libraries).

In ISO conforming C, he can't. End of story.

> 2/ Can ou filter the input source code before compilation (or
> interpretation) in some way so that language keywords could be changed
> for other strings?

Again in ISO conforming C...

#define ALIAS original

e.g.

#define voiture auto /* :-) */


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