One day I'll have to work with people who learned from this (and others like it), and it will be a long painful road to help them unlearn. Quoting from the

One day I'll have to work with people who learned from this (and others like it), and it will be a long painful road to help them unlearn. Quoting from the link you've mentioned: #define add(a, b) a + b I couldn't agree with you more. -- To elaborate: add(1, 8) * add(5, 1) wouldn't yield 9 * 6 = 54, but 1 + 8 * 5 + 1 which is 42. One might say that it's correct, since it's the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.