From: hansoft AT visitweb DOT com (Hans 'the Beez' Bezemer)
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Subject: Re: Scripting language library
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 06:39:45 GMT
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bill AT cafe DOT net (Kaz Kylheku) wrote:

>Defining  begin to stand for { and end to stand for } buys you absolutely nothing.
Don't agree, but I won't repeat all arguments again. From a focal point of
view, { } are easily "mistaken" for ().

>All you are doing is polluting the macro namespace. If some header file uses 'begin'
>or 'end' for any purpose, it will break. Macros should not be used frivolously.
>If you must define macros in some module's header file, they should be prefixed 
>in such a way that they are identified with the module. An identifier such as 'end'
>is a poor naming choice for a globally used macro.
>	#include "pascal.h"
It has it's own header file, called easyc.h

>	static char *fill(char *beg, char *end);	/* oops */
After tens of compilers and platforms I've never encountered the problem.
"token", yes. "begin", never.

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