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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Unnecessary Macros (was Re: Unnecessary Parenthesis)
Message-ID: <8590@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 03:22:46 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <8078@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>	z = square(*p++) + square(getchar());
>I dislike the original macro, but the fact remains that there is no good way
>to write this in C.

One wonders whether this is much of a problem.
(Note that the example is silly.)

There have been many occasions when I've needed the sum of two squares,
but I've never felt the need for the ability to define a "square" macro
in order to compute that.