Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sei.cmu.edu.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!sei.cmu.edu!dlc From: dlc@sei.cmu.edu.ARPA (Daryl Clevenger) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: abuse of #define Message-ID: <206@sei.cmu.edu.ARPA> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 15:26:13 EDT Article-I.D.: sei.206 Posted: Wed Sep 18 15:26:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:35:37 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16 I also think that things like : #define cylce for(;;) { and others are confusing. Not only as was previously pointed out can unforseen errors creep in, but understanding and modifying code is a pain. I feel that if someone is using C, then the reason they are doing so is that it is either their favorite language or the best language for the application. This means one must put up with its syntax so that there is as much uniformity as possible between programs. Besides Joe Smith may define foo as something and Frank Jones may define foo as something completely different. Imagine switching between programs with both. YUK! Fortunately, most languages do not have a preprocessor as in C, so please don't abuse the one that C has. I like to keep my sanity. Daryl