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From: edp@pyr.gatech.EDU (Eric D. Price)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Unnecessary Macros (was Re: Unnecessary Parenthesis)
Summary: Macros have their place, but ...
Message-ID: <6447@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 25 Sep 88 18:38:00 GMT
References: <2089@ssc-vax.UUCP> <441@kaon.uchicago.edu> <1401@devsys.oakhill.UUCP> <23@datcon.UUCP> <8577@smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: edp@pyr.UUCP (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <8577@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>In article <23@datcon.UUCP> sar@datcon.co.uk (Simon A Reap) writes:
>>    z = square(x) + square(y);
>>Does anyone know how to get round this problem?  Please!!
>
>	z = x*x + y*y;

Hear hear.  This latter construction is MUCH clearer and doesn't require
wandering through the source module ... and possibly gobs of header files.
-- 
Warren Tucker
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