Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.21.MISMATCH!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:49:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4E66A381.7AF3@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:49:37 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: FILE type References: <4e6666b7$0$31779$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.156.228.85 X-Trace: sv3-VIf2/INmo91h5BbIEYCknhssXJR+cA4P9sEzN/SXvZxOPbjsKCR1bOU2sMiZ6d9gcsBSTMjjmhifjrI!H9BlJnmEp4hxbkbK7XAfOvCaKITT6idzpkkyhLGAAmMlI0L2NhP28VQWaRFZGanpfZTBrCVZGIlK!x8ASIifMIQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1499 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:9974 Keith Thompson wrote: > > yoxoman 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