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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:11:26 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tony Finch <fanf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9
Message-ID:  <20020910071126.B44916@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209101054.g8AAseoS004374@freefall.freebsd.org>; from fanf@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:54:40AM -0700
References:  <200209101054.g8AAseoS004374@freefall.freebsd.org>

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* De: Tony Finch <fanf@FreeBSD.org> [ Data: 2002-09-10 ]
	[ Subjecte: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 ]
> fanf        2002/09/10 03:54:40 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     share/man/man9       style.9 
>   Log:
>   Remove a sentence about wrapping macro definitions in bare braces,
>   which became wrong after using do { } while (0) became recommended.
>   Move the definition of what braces are to their new first occurrence.
>   
>   Reviewed by:    bde

Any chance of us adopting the Mach (and Lites) policy of doing
<sys/macro_help.h> (actually <mach/macro_help.h>), and having some
macros like

#define	MACRO_BEGIN	do {
#define	MACRO_END	} while(0)	/* or with a ; if you like that */

?

IMHO this actually reduces the amount of obfuscation, because it makes
it clear what the statements are actually there to accomplish, and
keeps the braces from running into/obfuscating braces with meaning.
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