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| Date | Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:49:37 -0400 |
| From | pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> |
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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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