Macros

From	"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Macros
Message-ID	<xAMus.600270$yH4.30685@fx03.am4> (permalink)
Organization	virginmedia.com
Date	2012-12-02 17:53 +0000

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I'm trying out these macros to save on typing and errors** :

#define else } el##se {

That seems to work: 'else' is converted to '} else {'. Somehow the ## stops
the new 'else' from being recursively processed.

But:

#define elsif } el##se if

if converted to '} } else { if'. That new 'else' is this time processed one
extra time.

What's the way to make it do what I want? (I don't like using capitals; I
reserve those for debug code.)


(** A month or so of using C, and I'm starting to suffer from RSI pain
again! Partly from all the extra typing needed, partly from sorting out
problems from mismatching/missing braces, case labels and everything else.
For a supposedly terse language, there's a lot of typing involved!)


-- 
Bartc

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Macros "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-02 17:53 +0000
  Re: Macros Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-12-02 10:11 -0800
    Re: Macros James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-02 13:58 -0500
      Re: Macros Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-12-02 13:37 -0800
      Re: Macros falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2012-12-04 23:59 +0000
        Re: Macros James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-04 19:14 -0500
          Re: Macros Heikki Kallasjoki <fis+usenet@zem.fi> - 2012-12-05 00:58 +0000
            Re: Macros James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-04 20:44 -0500
          Re: Macros Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-04 20:03 -0500
            Re: Macros James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-04 20:48 -0500
              Re: Macros Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-05 23:17 +0200
    Re: Macros "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-02 19:54 +0000
      Re: Macros Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-03 09:14 +1300
        Re: Macros Greg Martin <greg@softsprocket.com> - 2012-12-02 12:38 -0800
          Re: Macros pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-02 16:28 -0500
            Re: Macros Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-12-02 22:59 +0000
        Re: Macros "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-02 21:11 +0000
      Re: Macros "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-02 22:55 +0000
        Re: Macros ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-12-03 06:48 -0800
        Re: Macros Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-09 03:15 -0800
  Re: Macros Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-03 07:19 +1300
  Re: Macros James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-02 10:29 -0800
  Re: Macros Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> - 2012-12-02 15:52 -0500
  Re: Macros Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-12-02 22:56 -0700
  Re: Macros Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-12-02 22:56 -0700
    Re: Macros "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-03 12:20 +0000
      Re: Macros Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-03 17:01 +0000
  Re: Macros Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-12-02 22:57 -0700
  Re: Macros "Heinrich Wolf" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-12-03 09:48 +0100
    Re: Macros Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-12-03 07:34 -0800

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