Is this valid?

**binnyshah** · 07-08-2010

Hi,
Is this puts statement valid? ..Ive come across something alike in vlc source code ..
insert

Code:

#define VERSION abc

static void version (void)
{
    puts ("LibVLC plugins cache generation version " VERSION);
  }

**Elysia** · 07-08-2010

No. Why would you even use it?
This is C code, not C++.

**laserlight** · 07-08-2010

If the first line was changed to:

Code:

#define VERSION "abc"

then it would be valid.

**grumpy** · 07-08-2010

Originally Posted by laserlight

If the first line was changed to:

Code:

#define VERSION "abc"

then it would be valid.

Just to clarify on that, a part of the language is that two adjacent string literals are concatenated.

Code:

char x [] = "Hello "     "world";

is equivalent to

Code:

char x [] = "Hello world";

**Cogman** · 07-09-2010

Originally Posted by Elysia

No. Why would you even use it?
This is C code, not C++.

Does the language standard support its use? Then it is valid. You can use a large portion of C code in the C++ language, it is still valid. It might be considered inelegant, but not invalid.

other then that, what laserlight said.

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