[petsc-dev] macro wrappers around functions to caste suck

[Barry Smith]

On Apr 5, 2013, at 9:34 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> The biggest mistake of C was CPP
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>    Hey, we can eliminate the currently needed (PetscObject) cast in a bunch of places with this horrible trick.
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> I thought you liked the explicitness of that cast.

   That was my rationalization for ugly code; until a better solution appeared and I no longer needed the rationalization  :-)      
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>    This actually doesn't introduce any more macros, its the same number with more reasonable naming.
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> Sure, it just uses #undef. I have no problem with changing it.