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The backslashes itself make the preprocessor way more complicated for no real advantage (apart when it's unavoidable like in macros). For every single symbol y
by kreco 1y ago
The backslashes itself make the preprocessor way more complicated for no real advantage (apart when it's unavoidable like in macros).
For every single symbol you need to actually check if there is a splice (backslash + new line) in it.
For single pass compiler, this contribute to a very slow lexing phase as this splice can appear anywhere in a C/C++ code.