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From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:33:26 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:22:06PM -0400, Ron Natalie wrote:
> 
> It's right up there with using #defines for silly things like
>     #define FOUR 4
> 
> Great.   What doe this tell me that the literal 4 doesn't.    It's a matter of time until someone says
>     #define FOUR 5
> 

One of my favorite messages I've ever received:
          
http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2013-q1/msg00115.html
          
khm