• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 hours ago

    Thx!

    ‘IF’ (which is distinctly not ‘if’)

    Is this something needed “for the meme” or something with this macro or C/C++? Or why the case-sensitivity here? I only know languages like Java, Python, JS. Unfortunately the ancient tongue is not known to me.

    • Reil@beehaw.org
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      3 hours ago

      It’s not really that important to the joke, since I’m pretty sure you can also replace keywords like ‘if’ with the preprocessor. It’s just that preprocessor macros are typically (style, not syntax) ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES.

      It’s just another clue that that block isn’t actually an if-block, since C is case sensitive and ‘IF’ wouldn’t actually work.