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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getch() and getche() in MSC 4.0
Message-ID: <14094@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 15:49:28 GMT
References: <10508@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <7594@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <7594@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@athena.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
writes:
>     1. Parenthesize fully, inside and out
>     2. Use capital letters in the name, to remind the reader
>	 it's a macro and may therefore act weird
>     3. Make every effort not to repeat "arguments," so that
>	 side effects aren't replicated

Actually, these are all good arguments for an `inline' keyword, a la
C++.  It is worth noting that GCC has an inline keyword, and one can
write, e.g.,

	inline int toupper(int c) {
		return (islower(c) ? _toupper(c) : c);
	}
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