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Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this?

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On 1/9/12 10:12 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 10.01.2012 07:05, Richard wrote:
>> [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
>>
>> "Alf P. Steinbach"<alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> spake the secret
>> code
>> <jeg3u2$fen$1@dont-email.me> thusly:
>>
>>> No, there is no good reason: one should in general reserve ALL UPPERCASE
>>> identifiers for macros.
>>>
>>> But they should be used for macros.
>>
>> I've seen people defining constant quantities like this in upper case
>> because they are used to only being able to define constants with
>> macros and they've equated the semantic category of "constants" to
>> "macros" in their mind.
>>
>> I could go either way about it.
>>
>> I prefer the advice given in Coding Standard 0: Don't Sweat the Small
>> Stuff, from "C++ Coding Standards" by Alexandrescue and Sutter.
>
> Well, I also like that statement, and have also quoted it many times.
>
> However, I think "small stuff" is mainly stuff that only impacts on the
> feelings of proponents of this scheme and that.
>
> Things that have associated costs such as wasted work time, especially
> for others, are IMHO not that kind of small stuff, to be disregarded.
> Name collisions have such costs. Reduced readability have such costs.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Alf

I fully agree. If the original author had just added a comment about 
what this was, it would have been no problem. Obscure with an 
explanation I can handle. Obscure and just sitting there with everything 
else, which also has no explanation, is just wrong.



-- 
Dave Scruggs

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Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? BCFD36 <bcfd36@aol.com> - 2012-01-09 17:11 -0800
  Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 02:23 +0100
    Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2012-01-10 06:05 +0000
      Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 07:12 +0100
        Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2012-01-09 22:35 -0800
      Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 06:58 +0000
    Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-01-10 21:58 +0000
      Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net> - 2012-01-10 16:46 -0600
      Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-10 23:41 +0000
        Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-01-11 00:19 +0000
          Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? "MikeWhy" <boat042-nospam@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-10 21:53 -0600
      Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-01-11 15:14 +0000
        Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-11 11:46 -0500
  Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-10 14:30 +1300
    Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2012-01-09 21:32 -0800
      Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-01-10 01:01 -0600
        Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2012-01-09 23:11 -0800
          Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2012-01-11 10:23 +0000
            Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2012-01-11 10:37 +0000
        Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-10 00:30 -0800
          Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 16:31 +0100
            Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-01-10 17:14 +0000
              Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-10 15:11 -0500
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 21:45 +0100
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2012-01-11 00:04 -0800
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2012-01-11 00:15 -0800
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-01-10 21:51 +0000
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? "Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com> - 2012-01-11 08:30 +0000
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? "Fred Zwarts \(KVI\)" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> - 2012-01-11 09:40 +0100
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2012-01-11 06:50 -0800
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-01-11 17:28 +0000
                Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net> - 2012-01-11 13:28 -0600
            Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-11 17:51 +0000
            Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-12 05:40 -0800
              Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? BCFD36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> - 2012-01-12 20:42 -0800
          Re: Coding Style Question - Is there any sane reason for doing this? hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2012-01-10 23:50 -0800

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