From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-23T02:22:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18302] Re: NUM2LONG problem :)

"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> The definition should be trivially fixed, nonetheless... the rules
> I've learned for the implementation of macros have been:

> * all parameters should be evaluated only once.

which would rule out 'MIN' and 'MAX' in the standard headers.

However, I _do_ believe that if it can be done across all the target
environments, this is a good candidate for an inline function.


Dave