[TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
Ron Natalie
ron at ronnatalie.com
Fri Mar 23 02:22:06 AEST 2018
> i.e. repeating anything i can see from the code (like “returns void”) tells me nothing.
It's right up there with using #defines for silly things like
#define FOUR 4
Great. What doe this tell me that the literal 4 doesn't. It's a matter of time until someone says
#define FOUR 5
I actually found some code in use that had
#define notdef 1
in it. I about went through the roof.
Frankly, I have immense distaste for the definition NULL. Especially those implementations that try to fix it by introducing a spurious cast on it.
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