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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
Message-ID: <36@ateng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 15:03:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ateng.36
Posted: Mon Oct 12 15:03:47 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 05:39:06 EDT
References: <1132@gilsys.UUCP> <11480008@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A.T. Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <11480008@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes:
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>#define    longandverbose  simple
>
>Steve Harrold			...hplabs!hpsmtc1!swh

This is a good technique, but it's even better if the #define is conditional:

#ifdef BRAINDAM /* AGED :-) */
#define longandverbose  terse
#endif

Note that this method is still a royal pain when debugging.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg         "chip@ateng.UUCP"  or  "{uunet,usfvax2}!ateng!chip"
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