The Old New Thing

A rant against flow control macros

January 6, 2005 Jan 6, 2005 01/6/05

Raymond Chen

I try not to rant, but it happens sometimes. This time, I'm ranting on purpose: to complain about macro-izing flow control. No two people use the same macros, and when you see code that uses them you have to go dig through header files to figure out what they do. This is particularly gruesome when you're trying to debug a problem with ...