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From: eachus@dr_no.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Function call or variable?
In-Reply-To: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk's message of 23 Mar 93 16:02:13 GMT
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   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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