Just when ......

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005, Ben Duncan wrote:
>... you thought you have seen it all.
>
>In my never ending quest to find a multi-user, variable length, typeless,
>key indexed data file manager for my SLAG project,
>I came across one that had all of the I/O mechanics done as #define 
>statements.
>
>Really, REALLY strange, to wit:

It looks to me as though he's doing this to set global variables
in what is essentially an in-line function.

While I've done some defines I'm not particularly proud of, I've
never done anything as messy as this :-).

...
Bill
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