Unnecessary Macros (was Re: Unnecessary Parenthesis)

[Robert Firth]

In article <70279 at sun.uucp> swilson at sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
In article <8078 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
In article <8577 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
In article <23 at datcon.UUCP> sar at datcon.co.uk (Simon A Reap) writes:

[several ways to define "square(x)" in C that don't quite work]

Full circle, I think.  We're about back where we started with the
position that the only effective solution is an exponentiation
operator, and let the compiler do the grunt work.