[vtk-developers] style : Holiday greetings and a present of V TK4.0

Volpe, Christopher R (CRD) volpecr at crd.ge.com
Fri May 25 10:42:24 EDT 2001


|> >... which is why any experienced C programmer writes her 
|> macros like this:
|> >
|> >#define FOOBAR(x) \
|> >do \
|> >   { \
|> >   do_something(); \
|> >   do_something_else(); \
|> >   etc(); \
|> >   } \
|> >while (0)
|> 
|> Sure, but you do not always use macros written by 
|> experienced programmers :)


Absolutely correct. That's why I defend myself against inexperienced programmers when I use macros,
and I defend inexperienced programmers against themselves when I write macros. :)

-Chris




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