Subroutine layout in C

[Eric S. Raymond]

In <1130 at goofy.megatest.uucp>, djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
> I am starting a definitive (ahem) collection of SLMs. This has the
> distinction of being the first.

SLM = Silly Little Macro? :-) Here're two more that I use:

#define	const	/*empty*/	/* on non-ANSI compilers */
#define public	/*empty*/

This latter goes with

#define private static

I may drop `forward' though.
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