Renaming UNUSE() to SKIP()
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Fri Feb 17 00:56:14 UTC 2006
On Thursday 16 February 2006 7:15 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> i really think the meaning of those macros would be a lot more
> transparent if they were called soemthing like:
> INCLUDE_IF_SYMBOL(blah) (or maybe "ONLY_IF_SYMBOL(blah)" )
> and
> OMIT_IF_SYMBOL(blah)
>
> the issue for me is that usually in a macro with args it's the
> arg that triggers a condition. in this case it's something in
> the _name_ of the macro that makes it conditional. adding the
> "IF" in there emphasizes that aspect. somehow the simple
> "USE_SYMBOL()" and "SKIP_SYMBOL()" really obfuscate the flow for
> me.
>
> however, if no one else knows what i'm talking about, i'll learn
> to deal. :-)
The problem is that's a significantly longer prefix, and we'd like to be able
to include these suckers inline, in 80 columns...
"ENABLE" is about the upper limit on prefix length (same as CONFIG).
Rob
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