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From: wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When do you use "if ( a = b )"?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.181912.5812@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 3 Apr 91 18:19:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.155003.5775@cc.helsinki.fi> <10654@uwm.edu> <1991Apr2.122448.5798@cc.helsinki.fi> <10700@uwm.edu>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <10700@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>>It's unnecessary, nonproductive extra work. That's the whole point. 
> 
> [changing macros/identifiers makes you learn the source well]

It's unproductive because it forces you to study larger amounts of code
than would otherwise be necessary, if you only need to make small
changes.
-- 
Lars Wirzenius    wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi