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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: is STC a good supplementary library for C?
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 22:33:58 -0000 (UTC)
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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.