"Paul Mensonides" <pmenso57@comcast.net> writes:
I agree, but I also think it looks like a macro that's supposed to act as a syntactic entity.
Only if you misjudge the motivations of the author.
Not really. My judgement is clear. It is either a workaround for an editor (or editors), a way to please users by making it look like a regular statement, or both. Despite what you say, frankly or otherwise, the last is the motivation. It's a transitive situation. If your motivation is to do what users want, but their motivation is X, then the motivation for a design is X. You aren't buffered by the indirection.
No. If I make knives and my motivation is to make knives that please my customers, and some customer likes a particular design feature because it makes the knife an effective murder weapon, that doesn't mean that the feature is motivated by murder. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com