You guys should check out some IOCCC entries
http://www.de.ioccc.org/years.html

(IOCCC = International Obfuscated C Code Contest)

Now THAT is what you should be using Macros for .

quote:Using someone else''s idea and copy pasting his source without understanding what''s written are different things

Heh, I had a friend in my HS Comp Sci class who frowned upon my use of OpenGL (when everyone else in the class made a textbased final project....). Then one day, my teacher finally shut him up by informing him that in *HIS* program, he was using the C++ compiler and that he didn''t write it, so he was "stealing" code to the same degree I was by using OGL.

And to all those who say that macros are dangerous, all I have to say is this.....

If you want a nice safe playground programming language, use Java. Even in its new "safe macro" inline functions, C++ will still let you do fun things like this:

char array[256];for (int i = 0; i <= 256; i++){        array = 0;} 

So how unsafe for loops are?


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quote:Original post by Tac-Tics

quote:Using someone else''s idea and copy pasting his source without understanding what''s written are different things

Heh, I had a friend in my HS Comp Sci class who frowned upon my use of OpenGL (when everyone else in the class made a textbased final project....). Then one day, my teacher finally shut him up by informing him that in *HIS* program, he was using the C++ compiler and that he didn''t write it, so he was "stealing" code to the same degree I was by using OGL.

And to all those who say that macros are dangerous, all I have to say is this.....

If you want a nice safe playground programming language, use Java. Even in its new "safe macro" inline functions, C++ will still let you do fun things like this:

char array[256];for (int i = 0; i <= 256; i++){        array = 0;}  

So how unsafe for loops are?

/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\
"You TK''ed my chicken!"
\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/¯\_/

Wot''s that got to do with macros, sucka?