>> If the 'op' is a compile-time constant and the "function" is either inline
>> or a macro, you get the same effect without having to expand the name space
>> of the API for each new 'op' you may add.
>
>Is the name space of the API that precious a commodity?
>
>I'm not sure that preserving it is worth the cost of having a complex
>macro with an unreadable nest of ?: operators, or an overly large
>inline function which *definitely* bloats up the code if someone makes
>the mistake of passing a variable op to it.
>
>					- Bill

Do people call malloc with a variable set to M_NOWAIT?  No, they use
M_NOWAIT directly.  I don't think this is a problem.

I think that an API should be extendable without having to add additional
functions if possible.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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