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Date: 04 Feb 2004 13:09:48 GMT
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Subject: Re: array indices  [i][j]
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>>  >  #define MA(i,j,k) A[i][j][k]
>>  >
>>  >(note the use of parentheses instead of square brackets), or a similar
>>  >definition of an inline function.
>> 
>> very good !
>
>Actually, not very good because using macros to change a syntactic
>appearance of a programming language is generally a bad habit.  For
>starters, people who read your program will have difficulty
>understanding the code.  And you yourself prevent yourself from
>learning C faster.


I assume that the compiler first translates the #define 's
into another  source code file  S  and then processes
S in a second step.
So, can I code with macros and then make the compiler
output the preprocessed file S also, so that everyone
can have the source without macros, if he wants ?