TITLE: Suppressing literal conversions to double

PROBLEM: proussel@pdx144.intel.com (Patrice Roussel), 28 Oct 93

I am trying to write a statement such as:
	x = 2.0e3213;

but, as you can guess, in this case the compiler converts '2.0e3213' to a
double and then try to convert this double to a BigNum.

Though I can fix the problem by using strings (means: with double quotes),
do you know if there is a way to get access to the string (without double 
quotes) and bypass the conversion performed by the compiler ?


RESPONSE: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock), Microsoft Corporation

In C++ the way you bypass the compiler's automatic conversion is by
preceeding the input with a '#', as in:

	x = #2.0e3213;

-- excepting that the '#' is only permitted in the body of a macro:

#define QUOTE(x) #x

which in turn leads us to the solution:

	x = QUOTE(2.0e3213);

Not the answer you hoped for, but the 'C++' answer in any case.