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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this?
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legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) writes:

> I've seen people defining constant quantities like this in upper case

Kernighan & Richie, to name but two.