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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Language principles
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Date: 17 Feb 90 01:32:29 GMT
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In article <1990Feb13.153513.2196@hcr.uucp> john@troch.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes:
}In article <4721@rtech.rtech.com> mikes@rtech.UUCP (Mike Schilling) writes:
}|From article <1990Feb9.181942.24649@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):

   [Zero, one, infinity rule]

}|I also remember a suggestion that languages force symbolic names to be used 
}|for constants other than zero and one, to make it harder to embed magic 
}|numbers in code.  I think this was Glenford Myers's idea.
 
}average = (a + b) / TWO

 (people who do: #define 2 TWO, #define 3 THREE, ... should be beaten)  ;-)
 
   #define N_TERMS 2              ==>   #define N_TERMS 3
   average = (a + b) / N_TERMS;   ==>   average = (a + b + c) / N_TERMS;

John Hascall  /  hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu