Re: e to the i pi


"osmium" <r124c4u102@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Fred Kleinschmidt" writes:

Aren't M_PI and M_E defined in math.h?

Thankfully, no. Only in grotesque extensions to the language made by
certain vendors.

Definitions of constants have no proper place in a programming language,
it just leads to two sets of constants, a private set, for M_AVOGADRO and
the like, and the set that came with the compiler, M_PI. and friends.

And thus we should get rid of defined constants like INT_MAX, INT_MIN, etc.,
since they have no place in a programming language.
--
Fred L. Kleinschmidt


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