"Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev / bigfoot.com> writes: > Just now I met a funny problem with NUM2LONG macro. > > I've written a line like the following > > return NUM2LONG( fn( x ) ); > > Function fn has vivid side effect and NUM2LONG calls it twice ( see > its definition ) :) Do not do like above! Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I type this. Doctor: Then don't type that. Just call rb_num2long(fn(x)) directly. Dave