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0 pointsloeg7y ago0 comments

In particular, a single statement. I'm sure the link covers it, but:

    if (foo)
      MULTI_LINE_MACRO;

Breaks without some wrapper like if (1) { A; B; } or do { A; B; } while (0):

    if (foo)
      A;
      B;  // oops, unconditional (e.g., "goto fail")

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It also gives you a nice scope to keep local variables in, but there are other ways to accomplish that too.

loegOP7y ago

Yeah, that's a good point too.

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