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Subject: Re: is STC a good supplementary library for C?
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 14:05:00 -0000 (UTC), Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:
> 
>> Macros can get into the realm of unreadability, but there's an
>> unfortunate feedback loop here:  people are told to not use macros
>> because they're unreadable, which means that people don't get as much
>> experience with macros, which means that they find it hard to read
>> macros ...
> 
> Macros done by manipulating strings in a preprocessor are the wrong way
> to do them.
> 
> The right way to do macros is at the AST level, like Lisp does them.

Standard C preprocessors are already token-based instead of text-based 
like prestandard ones were.



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