Whitespace is your friend

[John Russell]

In article <785 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
> >			card=NOVALUE;
> >#define NOVALUE	-1
>
>Nevertheless, White Space is Still Your Friend, since if you put the
>white space in compilers that still honor the old syntax will do the
>right thing as well.

Negative define values are also a good place to use parentheses. There
is more than one way for the compiler to choke on an unparenthesized number.

eg. #define NOVALUE (-1)
    card2 = card1-NOVALUE

Either whitespace are brackets will allow it to parse correctly in this case.

John
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