[MonoDevelop] What is the correct way of closing a Gtk dialog?

Chris Howie cdhowie at gmail.com
Thu May 22 14:55:53 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Michael Hutchinson
<m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why having preprocessor macros is a
>> GOOD THING.
>
> Uh, preprocessor macros are a bad idea unless:
> (a) you trust every other programmer you work with not to abuse them
> (b) you like having to look up macros before you understand the code
> you're looking at
> (c) you don't like code completion

(a) Not much different than abusing any other feature of a programming
language.  A quick Google will reveal many badly written
C#/VB.NET/C/PHP/etc programs too.

(b&c) A good code completion system would parse macros as well and
possibly even show you what they do via tooltip.

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Chris Howie
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