Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!mwherman From: mwherman@watcgl.UUCP (Michael W. Herman) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: context-independent macros Message-ID: <1217@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 11:18:58 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.1217 Posted: Sat Feb 9 11:18:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 05:04:52 EST References: <1885@wateng.UUCP> <1089@hcrvx1.UUCP> <33@daisy.UUCP> <1097@hcrvx1.UUCP> <695@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <949@calgary.UUCP> Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 4 > I posted a flame months ago on the deficiencies of the preprocessor. I > advocated an "inline" attribute for procedures to allow one to avoid its use. C++ has such an attribute for functions.