Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Writing readable code Message-ID: <380@sugar.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 20:18:55 EDT Article-I.D.: sugar.380 Posted: Fri Jul 10 20:18:55 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:16:52 EDT References: <8286@ut-sally.UUCP> <7001@alice.UUCP> <364@sol.ARPA> <1158@copper.TEK.COM> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 14 Summary: Don't laugh > defined. Now, if you're dealing with a mentality that would > do something like > #define TRUE 0 /* don't try this at home, kids */ > then you've got major problems, and it wouldn't help you if that > misguided individual had avoided typedefs and/or #defines. I've seen this one in an otherwise mediocre-but-not-gross program written by someone who didn't grok the return value from strcmp() in all fullness. Come to think of it, i did have other major problems at the time. More of politics than programing though. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)