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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>
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Subject: Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war
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 "from Daniel Phillips at Aug 30, 2001 07:01:25 pm"
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"Daniel Phillips wrote:"
> More than anything, it shows that education is needed, not macro patch-ups.
> We have exactly the same issues with < and >, should we introduce 
> three-argument macros to replace them?

# define le(t,a,b) ({ t _a = a; t _b = b;  min(t,_a,_b) == _a ; })
# define ge(t,a,b) ({ t _a = a; t _b = b;  min(t,_a,_b) == _b ; })

;-)

Peter