Little conveniences

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:

    Greg> Yeah, I was careful to say that it's not possible to write as a C
    Greg> function; it would be possible as a macro.  (Even, as you illustrate, a
    Greg> macro using each of the arguments only once.)  I'm a little reluctant to
    Greg> introduce a construction which can only be defined as a macro, but if
    Greg> people think it's worth that price to keep the order consistent, I'll
    Greg> switch it around.

My preference is to avoid introducing macros when we can and I don't
see that the order is problematic.  So I prefer your first approach.