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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type-independent absolute value
Keywords: abs, labs
Message-ID: <831@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 15:02:12 GMT
References: <1389@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM> <799@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <3497@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <3497@solo10.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

|  Why?  I can understand `-x' isn't a good idea, but `-(x)' seems OK to me.

  I may be overly paranoid about semibroken compilers. In macros I try
to use enough parens to cover anything I might ever use, on any compiler
however poor. I had nothing special in mind, just CYA.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon