[linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet ano ther)

STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI) es6269 at sbc.com
Wed Feb 5 11:33:01 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ham [mailto:rah at bash.sh]
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 00:26, Josh Haberman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:41, Bob Ham wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 20:47, Josh Haberman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Imagine being able to write to an API as simple and 
> well-designed as
> > > > this: 
> <http://www.portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/portaudio_8h.html>
> > > 
> > > Just out of interest, why are paNoDevice, paFloat32, etc, defines
> > > instead of const values?
> > 
> > I don't really know.  Isn't that kind of a six/half-dozen detail? 
> 
> Probably.  I think it was Bjarne Stroustrup who said 
> something along the
> lines of "Every use of a define is an instance of a programmer not
> programming correctly."  But I was just wondering if it was some
> portability thing or something.

  I think the basic idea is not to use preprocessor for programming...

	erik



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