Thread: Microsoft ruins my code

So, today I was writing a DirectX application (thus being forced to include windows stuff). Everything was working as expected, when suddenly, from nowhere, a terrifying error appeared near variable declaration:

Code:

Com::FontPtr small = Dxlib::Text::Font(Target.GetDevice(), "Courier New", 14, true);

menu.cpp|53|error: expected unqualified-id before '=' token|

I had absolutely NO idea what could be wrong until I traced possible declaration of 'small' identifier and found this:

Header: rpcndr.h (windows one)
Line: 51
Code: #define small char

I am posting this as a warning for anyone who attempts to touch win headers. There are other, equally stupid defines.

I blame C and its define madness.

Hehe, don't take it seriously. It's more of a joke than seriousness.

Originally Posted by CommonTater

But if there were no cars, there would be no drunk drivers.

(And, about 1/10th the current rate of asthma.)

This smells of socialism...

I am wondering if the guy who dared to add this definition still works for Microsoft.

Originally Posted by dennis.cpp

I read a lot of socialist classics, but I never came across anything related to cars, drunk driving, or asthma.

Welcome to the forums.

So, you probably do not understand the basis of socialism. Shortly: it is not about cars, drinking, or asthma, it is about the way of thinking and "solving" problems. Solving is enclosed in double quotes because the effect is usually counter-productive. In socialism the goverment needs to take money from the rich and to give it to the poor. The whole trick is to make people forget about paying and focus their attention on taking. People who cannot think logically are convinced that the goverment gives them more than take. Indeed, this can be true for principle, but not when it comes to the society as a whole. So, you must have a reason to take money; fumes, CO2 emmision, and such not environment-friendly can be one. I live in a country, which was affected by socialism very much in the past, and still is, but just under another name.

Originally Posted by CommonTater

Wow... aren't you the humourless bunch!

How in the h__l do you get from a joke about blaming cars for drunk drivers all the way to the far end of socialist theory...

My lord people.

Blame Microsoft, they started this (: