On 29-Dec-05, at 1:37 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
I vote for a) - I doubt anybody would ever bother to remember that there are two variants (I sure wouldn't ;-) And there might be reasons to request alias resolution for other purposes too.
Problem is that you *have* to remember there are two variants in any hopefully-portable code. Stupid, eh? Actually if we had the 4-arg function it would serve as a constant reminder of that so perhaps doing that and no reality-hiding-convenience macros would be best.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.