It's difficult to justify the macro aspect of the preprocessor, there are a thousand horror stories for every questionably good macro use-case. The only somewh

It's difficult to justify the macro aspect of the preprocessor, there are a thousand horror stories for every questionably good macro use-case. The only somewhat respectable macro definition usage I recall from my C++ days was type aliasing to support multi-platform build targets. But even that is hard to rationalize outside the standard libraries.