structured entry of #if preprocessor commands

Dave Gillett dgil at pa.reuter.COM
Tue Feb 12 10:41:08 AEST 1991


In <1991Feb10.063915.5476 at ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) writes:

>Is it common practice not to structure preprocessor commands in ANSI C?
                              ^^^^^^^^^

     The word "structure", as a noun and a verb, has a variety of meanings
that are useful in a programming context.

     However, its use as a verb synonymous (according to Jason's example) with
"indent" is not among those.  Indentation is commonly used as a technique to
make structure visible, but it is not structure in a programming sense and
should never be mistaken for it.

                                                Dave



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