Macros in good code bases are incredibly useful to abstract things away. Usually achieving things that functions can't. When working in large code bases with l

Macros in good code bases are incredibly useful to abstract things away. Usually achieving things that functions can't. When working in large code bases with languages that don't have macros I find myself seeing people trying to accomplish the same task, but in subtly different ways. These are cases where a helper function usually would not reduce the LOC or complexity. As with everything, macros can be bad, but I wouldn't be so quick to ban them outright.