Re: xemacs source code HOWTO ?
Didier Verna writes:
Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Stef Epardaud <stef(a)lunatech.com> writes:
>
> > while, and Java brainwashed me quite well, i got very confused as to all
> > the precompiler macros
>
> Don't worry. The preprocessor macro's scare everybody. They are way
> over the top, IMVHO.
Don't be so VH :-) There are far too many useless macros in XEmacs,
notably the ones for just getting a structure field that takes
longer to type than directly `foo->bar'. Not to speak about
GCC_ATTRIBUTE_SYNTAX_SUCK (IIRC) and other zawinskies of this
sort :-)
Well, I like the macros. A few of the mods I've made would have
been a lot harder without them. It's just another form of modularity.