[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] directional code cleanup: patch #1

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> 
> how about a macro?  it's faster than function and you can put checks
> there too, although you'll have to forgo type checking.

You're joking, right?  right?  With a macro you would still need the global
variable to look up the names in.  Didn't your mother teach you to avoid
global variables unless there is a good reason not to?  And this is used for
printing debugging output, so I hardly think the speed matters so much to use
a macro.