On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:18:21 +0300, Momchil Velikov wrote: > >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes: > >> No type is passed as an argument as this is a macro. The syntactic > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Jan> You have not read the macro, right? Damn sure a type IS passed as an > Jan> argument of the macro. In the argument "type". The rest of the > Jan> explanation is right, though. > > As this is a macro nothing is passed, in the sense that nothing is > moved from one place to another. Macros have arguments, but they are > not PASSED, but SUBSTITUTED. Most people mean "substituted", when they say "passed as argument of a macro". Making that distinction is more confusing that not. Of course, types can never ever be truly passed in C, since they are not first-class objects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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