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Fingermann's assertion: at the point where a preprocessor becomes Turing complete it is time to write a preprocessor for it
by theophrastus 13y ago
Fingermann's assertion: at the point where a preprocessor becomes Turing complete it is time to write a preprocessor for it
- unwind 13y agoC++'s template mechanism is not implemented by the preprocessor. Templates control actual code generation (that's sort of their point, with generics) so they must be handled later in the compilation, by the compiler proper.