[Libreoffice] [PATCH][PUSHED] Replace ENSURE_OR_* macros with regular code.
Stephan Bergmann
sbergman at redhat.com
Tue Jan 24 00:30:27 PST 2012
[This should have gone out last night already, somehow didn't make it
off my computer.]
On 01/23/2012 11:08 AM, Marcel Metz wrote:
> I oppose to the "macros improve readability" argument, these macros
> don't improve readability, they hide some regular execution from the
> programmer. You would need to know the structure of the macro to
> completely understand what the code is doing which could be a problem
> for developers that are not aware of the side effects of the macros.
> When reading the regular code the keywords that change the execution
> would stand out while the macros could easily be skipped.
Indeed, macros with hidden control flow magic are extra evil. C++
offers poor abstractions in this regard, but macros overall bring more
pain than relief, so one generally has to bite the bullet and write some
repetitive -- albeit trivial -- boilerplate.
However, I have another question: I notice that, while most occurrences
are replaced with SAL_WARN, some were left as OSL_ENSURE (which I
changed to SAL_WARN; one missed a comma, anyway) and some are changed to
SAL_INFO. Was there some rationale for that? Anyway, pushed now (and
additionally removed some newly unnecessary #include "tools/diagnose_ex.h").
Thanks,
Stephan
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