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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:40:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:43:33 -0000 (UTC)
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wibbled:
>On 2025-04-23, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> On 23/04/2025 16:31, David Brown wrote:
>>> On 22/04/2025 22:03, bart wrote:
>>
>>> Too few levels of functions and/or macros (there is no semantic 
>>> difference between macros and functions in this matter)
>>
>> There is a great deal of difference. Functions tend to be well-formed in 
>> their inputs and outputs.
>>
>> Macros take some abitrary blocks of syntax and return another arbitrary 
>> block of syntax:
>>
>>      #define INDEX(a, b, y) a y b
>>      INDEX(a, i, [) ];
>
>While that's terrible, I've never seen anything like it in the wild.

He loves coming up with unrealistic code examples that no decent programmer
would ever write then points and says look how bad macros must be. Using that 
approach you can easily come up with highly contorted code that no one can read
as the Obfuscated C contest proves.