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Preprocessor is just doing text transformations on the sources. It's not really something that can be fixed, other than moving away from the preprocessor and p
by marginalia_nu 7mo ago
Preprocessor is just doing text transformations on the sources.
It's not really something that can be fixed, other than moving away from the preprocessor and putting metaprogramming capabilities into the language itself (which C++ has been doing).
- amelius 7mo agoI mean, you could extend it such that a simple comma has no special meaning. But I agree, fewer special tricks is better and that includes the preprocessor.
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