Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!204.52.135.9.MISMATCH!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!216.196.98.146.MISMATCH!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: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:56:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4FE8EC82.546@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:56:02 -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: Learning C as an existing programmer References: <8f12fe88-2fe4-45c2-bbb2-6b7f63a6137c@st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.156.228.186 X-Trace: sv3-eJlYSeJJaLNeoRTg+P3huUXCL5wmqpYdDd9LLNgVLdFVIy1qGJzaCfpKE8Ag6V/Rv3gHpXgiOIlVytK!HwlWbRU6pcvCHL1krokUH0zSbN8o546ENNXzcYDXLJrXfuGM+O4J2jxAIRtm9EZ+GyAke1uoSJS0!GmiQ0IQz1g== 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: 1734 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:22739 Nachy wrote: > > On Jun 25, 4:38 pm, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote: > > Nachy writes: > > >- Constants are UPPERCASE (as in many languages, including BASIC) > > > > Uppercase is used for most preprocessor macros, > > which might sometimes expand to literals. > > Good point. > s/Constants/Constants and macros/ But that's not the case. (stderr), (stdin), and (stdout) are three examples of lowercase macros. -- pete