From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,57f23cc4dd455d6c
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-25 07:19:42 PST
Path: 
 nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!eff!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!spectre!eachus
From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: C++ Envy
Date: 25 Jan 1995 15:19:42 GMT
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Message-ID: <EACHUS.95Jan25101942@spectre.mitre.org>
References: <3f2tbv$r5o@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com>
 <3frte2$re5@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>
	<jmartin.790756127@kaiwan009> <3g0evo$1h2@borage.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
	<D2xBAz.9pG@world.std.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: spectre.mitre.org
In-reply-to: bobduff@world.std.com's message of Tue, 24 Jan 1995 18:56:58 GMT
Date: 1995-01-25T15:19:42+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <D2xBAz.9pG@world.std.com> bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:

 > True, but this seems like a minor point to me.  No language can protect
 > against blatantly irresponsible coding tricks.  Languages should instead
 > try to prevent problems that happen by accident, as most bugs do.  How
 > could you accidentally use the trick being discussed?

   Because it was in a .h file that was in a #include in some .h file
you included?

   The problem of conflicts between defines in a C or C++ library is a
serious one, and the convention of all defined names being all upper
case is a help, but in no way solves the problem.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

with Standard_Disclaimer;
use  Standard_Disclaimer;
function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...