Re: [ Attn: Randy ] Ad-hoc Parsing?

From: Randall Hyde (randyhyde_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:37:33 GMT

"Herbert Kleebauer" <klee@unibwm.de> wrote in message
news:41BA0FB2.E351F19B@unibwm.de...
>
> I didn't say that it is a very bad idea to not enclose the parameters
> of a macro within parentheses. I said, if you enclose the parameters
> in (), then it is a very bad idea when you omit the empty () if there
> are no parameters. Either always or never use ().

The cool thing, and this is very important, is that the end-user
makes the choice, not the language designer.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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