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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Oh nooo! (gotos)
Message-ID: <7816@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 01:51:29 GMT
References: <147@egrunix.UUCP>
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From article <147@egrunix.UUCP>, by schemers@egrunix.UUCP (Roland Schemers):
>>   While we are on the subject of loops, how do people feel about the
>>   practice of using #define to "extend" the language?
>>

I don't like 'em.

I call such things, "SLM"'s, which stands for "silly little macros".
Whether or not a goto is a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing, it is not
improved by hiding it so that some unfortunate code reader has to
track it down inside a macro in some #include file.