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From: marti@mint.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
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Subject: Re: named parameters and verbosity [was: Functions without side effects]
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Date: 29 Jun 91 07:50:27 GMT
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In article <1991Jun29.001927.18591@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
writes:

[on software engineering, programming style, C, Ada, macros, and
 enumerations]

>I could revisit the topic and rip into the notion of constants as macros,
>but I think I'll just let it drop at this point.

Yes, please.  After all, this is comp.object ...

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