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Agreed. Although it's also a bit worse than that for coding exclusively with macros. You have to add an extra degree of complexity for any additional code generator you add to your toolchain, when that path comes into play for debugging. Since we whole-buffalo'ed this situation, that's 100% of the code you could possibly need to debug.


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jacquesm11/03/2025

Yes, precisely, that's when all that cleverness will come back to bite you hard.

"Which line was that again? Oh... "

Pics up the phone, dials.

"Honey, I won't be home in time for dinner."

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