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by 10000truths
1779 days ago
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Macros are useful, as long as they're used sparingly. I think that in this case, it's used well - the struct is still perfectly readable, and the sole purpose of it is to make it so that you don't have to manually name the dummy fields. But you could totally just write out dummy1, dummy2, dummy3 etc. yourself if you want to get rid of the macros. |
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Everybody says that. Everybody believes it. And everybody goes to town making a rat's nest with macros, just like that snarl of cables under my desk that resist all attempts to make it nice.
Myself included. I've even written an article about clever C macros. Look, ma! I was so proud of myself.
But then I got older. I started replacing the macros in my C code with regular code. It turns out they weren't that necessary at all. I liked the C code a lot better when it didn't have a single # in it other than #include.