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Unfortunately, text-substitution macros (like CPP) pretty much force a source file to be treated as a stream of bytes. They can be handy, but delimited macros (
by chriswarbo 5y ago
Unfortunately, text-substitution macros (like CPP) pretty much force a source file to be treated as a stream of bytes. They can be handy, but delimited macros (e.g. like Lisps) are much less invasive.
- dataflow 5y agoYeah that's kind of my point. The idea of syntax based source control is nice in theory but in reality it's just wishful thinking with the kinds of languages we use.