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8 The <b>BOOST_PP_LPAREN</b> macro expands to a left parenthesis.
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10 <h4>Usage</h4>
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12 <b>BOOST_PP_LPAREN</b>()
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14 <h4>Remarks</h4>
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16 The preprocessor interprets parentheses as delimiters in macro invocations.&nbsp;
17 Because of this, parentheses require special handling.
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19 <h4>See Also</h4>
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21 <li><a href="rparen.html">BOOST_PP_RPAREN</a></li>
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23 <h4>Requirements</h4>
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25 <b>Header:</b> &nbsp;<a href="../headers/punctuation/paren.html">&lt;boost/preprocessor/punctuation/paren.hpp&gt;</a>
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27 <h4>Sample Code</h4>
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29#include &lt;<a href="../headers/punctuation/paren.html">boost/preprocessor/punctuation/paren.hpp</a>&gt;
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31#define X(x) x
32#define MACRO(p, x) X p x )
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34MACRO(<a href="lparen.html">BOOST_PP_LPAREN</a>(), abc) // expands to abc
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36#define Y(x)
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38MACRO((10) Y <a href="lparen.html">BOOST_PP_LPAREN</a>(), result) // expands to 10
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