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Re: FILE type

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Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> yoxoman <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
> > Is there a reason why the FILE type
> > (from stdio) is written uppercase ?
> > Is it related to its opaque nature ?
> 
> Macros are conventionally written in all-caps.

I think that C may be older than that convention.

Besides the many lower case macros in the C library,
there are also lower case macro examples in the standard
such as str() and xstr().

-- 
pete

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FILE type yoxoman <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-06 18:30 +0000
  Re: FILE type Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> - 2011-09-06 14:39 -0700
  Re: FILE type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-09-06 14:39 -0700
    Re: FILE type pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-09-06 18:49 -0400
      Re: FILE type DDD <1983ddd@gmail.com> - 2011-09-06 22:02 -0700
        Re: FILE type Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-07 03:12 -0700
          Re: FILE type gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 05:25 -0700

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