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From: Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Function args not checked
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:53:48 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4443BA0C.3020300@comtv.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40e76fd4ab1b047841b5829ed8015b0e@plan9.bell-labs.com>

jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:

>As an aside, when you declare prototypes I find it is best to
>only give the types of the parameters and not declare identifiers,
>e.g.
>	extern Elem mkoid(Ints *); // asn1.h
>rather than
>	extern Elem mkoid(Ints *oid); // asn1.h
>This prevents confusion in environments where there is overuse
>of the pre-processor and the identifier gets substituted.
>
>
It's just an evidence of preprocessor's danger. Let's use enums. IMHO,
prototypes are quite good documentation sometimes.
--
Victor Nazarov



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-17 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-17  6:50 Rodolfo (kix)
2006-04-17  7:00 ` geoff
2006-04-17  7:25   ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-04-17 14:52 ` jmk
2006-04-17 15:17   ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-04-17 15:28     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-17 15:31       ` jmk
2006-04-17 15:40         ` Paul Lalonde
2006-04-17 16:30           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-17 20:43             ` Don Bailey
2006-04-17 15:53   ` Victor Nazarov [this message]
2006-04-17 16:00     ` Devon H. O'Dell

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