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From: eachus@dr_no.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Function call or variable?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 02:10:31 GMT
Date: 1993-03-24T02:10:31+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.93Mar23211031@dr_no.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk's message of 23 Mar 93 16:02:13 GMT


   John English by the way he quoted me seems to imply that I was
endorsing #define, when actually we are in violent argeement.  I also
agree that there exist sensible C programmers--not that there are many
of them. :-)

   However, const does come with a different set of potential
problems, it is just a much smaller set.  (The watch it! involves
consts included in different modules, whose values depend on
globals...  There is no guarentee that the const will evaluate the
same in every unit.  Another one of those C "features" where good
library management discipline is essential.)

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-03-17 23:58 Function call or variable? Robert I. Eachus
1993-03-23 16:02 ` John English
1993-03-24  2:10   ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
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1993-03-05 23:31 Thomas Huynh
1993-03-07 20:27 ` Alex Blakemore
1993-03-08  0:34   ` David Emery
1993-03-13  0:39   ` Adam Beneschan
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