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From: | fotios |
Subject: | Re: Question regarding manuals terminology |
Date: | Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:33:52 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 |
On 02/12/2012 12:54 AM, c. wrote:
Yep yep, thx! I know that a macro is not a function (when both terms are used by programmers, whereas it is a mapping mathematically speaking) . . . my problem was that i could not find the defining file . . . thx again.On 11 Feb 2012, at 19:00, address@hidden wrote:Hello list, I would like to ask if there is a good reason (not obvious to a naive programmer like me) for refering to DEFUN_DLD as a *macro* (and not as a function)? /FotisA macro is not a function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_preprocessor#Macro_definition_and_expansion DEFUN_DLD is defined as a macro: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/9f8ff01abc65/src/defun-dld.h#l60 HTH, c.
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