Use of identifiers (e.g., Dn pin identifiers)

[grb]

@DrDiettrich

That's ****. D2 is different from 2. See the implementation of the D2 macro.

Huh? I was asking a question, not expressing an opinion.

In the opening comment by @ptillisch, the following advice was given:

@ptillisch

So all this is to say that I strongly recommend against using the Dn pin names in your code.

Therefore, this thread (which started as a side discussion in a different thread) I was seeking first to clarify the advice that was given by @ptillisch:

@grb

@ptillisch

So all this is to say that I strongly recommend against using the Dn pin names in your code.

Interesting — until I read your comment, I would have assumed the opposite. So the preferred method to reference pin numbers is by their naked (unsigned integer) value?