[Pyrex] Pyrex at Pycon

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 30 02:04:07 CEST 2004


Michael JasonSmith <mpj17 at student.canterbury.ac.nz>:

> As a person who has to teach C, I would be happy to see the preprocessor
> doused in petrol, thrown into the middle of the road and set on fire. 
> It causes more confusion than it is worth :)

I'd be happy with that, too, but unfortunately people want
to wrap header files that do contain macros.

> I am the sort of person who would refuse support of #define on
> principal.

That's a possible solution. I may consider it. :-)

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