On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:22:00AM -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote: > If you agree with the assumption that we can't throw away the reason > for the cast but need something in the source file to help us > remember, then it becomes a question of the clearest way to preserve > the information. > > To me, using a special cast like that is as clear as a comment, more > concise than a comment, and more likely to be consistently applied and > easily found when looking for these problems than a comment.
I think comments would be much clearer because they'd remove the "huh?" factor when you read the code for the first time without knowing what the macro means. But I don't care enough to go and revert the changes and probably nobody else is paying attention so I guess let's give up and go do something useful. joe
