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None of these examples demonstrate something that can't be done procedurally. He never actually answers the question "What is the point of macros?"
by kingkongrevenge 20y ago
None of these examples demonstrate something that can't be done procedurally. He never actually answers the question "What is the point of macros?"
- ecuzzillo 20y agoYou CAN do it procedurally; in fact, you can do it in Brainfuck, since Brainfuck is Turing-complete. The point is, macros let you stop repetitively writing the same boilerplate code, and let you get down to the point.