Scott Hill wrote in message <01bde307$ced53f40$8c00a8c0@shindo>...
> Neither are dumb nor useless, granted you can usually achieve the same
>effect in a non-recursive or non-nested matter, but there are some
>algorithms that are a nightmare to implement non-recursively, and nested
>macros would be ideal in situations where you wanted to define a macro that
>was only 'in-scope' for the duration of the parent macro.


I meant my examples were dumb and useless, not #macros . Hey, I like them so
much I already got addicted to them and am rewriting all my .inc files for
3.1

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>Author of Pandora's Box
>Company homepage : http://www.ddlinks.demon.co.uk
>
>"The best trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he didn't
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Peter

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Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote in article
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> 
> Scott Hill wrote in message <01bde307$ced53f40$8c00a8c0@shindo>...
> > Neither are dumb nor useless, granted you can usually achieve the same
> >effect in a non-recursive or non-nested matter, but there are some
> >algorithms that are a nightmare to implement non-recursively, and nested
> >macros would be ideal in situations where you wanted to define a macro
that
> >was only 'in-scope' for the duration of the parent macro.
> 
> 
> I meant my examples were dumb and useless, not #macros . Hey, I like them
so
> much I already got addicted to them and am rewriting all my .inc files
for
> 3.1
> 

	Hmm, a case of double miss-interpretation, I think. I meant _nested and
recursive_ macros, not macros in general. Macros are cool.

-- 
Scott Hill
Sco### [at] DDLinkscouk
Software Engineer (and all round nice guy)
Author of Pandora's Box
Company homepage : http://www.ddlinks.demon.co.uk

"The best trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he didn't
exist..."
								- Verbal Kint.

"the Internet is here so we can waste time talking about nothing in 
 particular when we should be working" - Marcus Hill.

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