Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!gitpyr!edp 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 Lines: 12 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 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!edp