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From: volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 'void' arguments (Yet Another Feature Proposal)
Message-ID: <15955@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:42:37 GMT
References: <943@tuura.UUCP>
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In article <943@tuura.UUCP>, risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) writes:
|>
|>   SetThisMode( int iMode,int iValue1,int iValue2,int iValue3 );
|>
|>also suppose the documentation says that 'when iMode==<xyz>, then none of
|>the iValue:s have any effect'.  In code you'd then write:
|>
|>   SetThisMode( <xyz>,0,0,0 ); or SetThisMode( <xyz>,<your-age-in-days>,
|>      <temperature-in-Kelvins>,<number-of-emptied-Coke-cans-this-week> );
|>
|>when you could be doing...
|>
|>   SetThisMode( <xyz>,(int)any,(int)any,(int)any );
|>

How about making it a variable argument list function and calling
it with 
           SetThisMode(<xyz>);
or
           SetThisMode(<abc>,i,j,k);
???



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|>Terveisin: Risto Lankinen
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