Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: two's complement idea Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 07:08:34 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <86imlegjnx.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <86tv7dcfxr.fsf@linuxsc.com> <8636e7bvog.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86o8wk3zef.fsf@linuxsc.com> <8ef21e91-6984-44d1-8585-568b245c5924@googlegroups.com> <8636cm4n6l.fsf@linuxsc.com> <70e7d1bf-c994-49f4-bad4-15f386b8adca@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2dd0ff26386f9ade01e1210d85a64307"; logging-data="25738"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18rHD5W9PThPsRIYCTGYPG/jXumxSOXCt8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TdgxMFp9sekRvzoKDOxdTmBxOrM= sha1:rUOkWWH0wu+5ZDyMep9S6QleVJ8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:71339 Tiib writes: > On Saturday, 11 January 2020 06:44:28 UTC+2, Tim Rentsch wrote: [...] >> Your comments are not really about macros but about how various >> people misuse macros. Any language feature can be misused. >> My question is about macros, not about people who misuse them. > > Programmer who is ordered to write software for platform where he > can not avoid wasting workdays into dealing with that misuse of > feature by platform vendors still can not avoid disliking the > feature that allows such annoying misuses. Especially in places > where usage of inline functions, templates or constants would > be as simple but would not cause the issues existence of whose > you dismiss. That may be interesting but it doesn't address the question I was asking.