Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: The new macro M is no good...

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:33:49AM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> Funny, just last night I read Item 0 in /C++ Coding Standards/ by
> Sutter and Alexandrescu?:
> 
>   [A]lways use ONLY_UPPERCASE_NAMES for macros and never think about
>   writing a macro that is a common word or abbreviation (including
>   common template parameters, such as T and U; writing #define T
>   /anything/ is extremely disruptive).

Well, yes, it's good advice.  But since M _cannot_ be a non-macro, and
to be useful needs be quick and easy to type (or it will not be
used), the question we're left with is which rules to break how...

-- Nathaniel

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