How Not to Program in C++

One Character Wonders 37

Program 25: Maximum Surprise

The loop in this program is designed to print a greeting ten times. But the

program has different ideas. So what happens?

NOTE This program fails to compile on the GNU compilers and other systems that do not imple-

ment preprocessor directives exactly as the standard calls for. (They do a better job, which

unfortunately breaks this program.)

1 /************************************************

2 * Print a bunch of greetings. *

3 ************************************************/

4 #include <iostream>

5

6 #define MAX =10

7

8 int main()

9{

10 int counter; // Current greeting

11

12 for (counter =MAX; counter ...