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ameliusyesterday at 5:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Shouldn't the preprocessor be fixed, if it trips that easily on common C++ constructs?


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marginalia_nuyesterday at 5:33 PM

Preprocessor is just doing text transformations on the sources.

It's not really something that can be fixed, other than moving away from the preprocessor and putting metaprogramming capabilities into the language itself (which C++ has been doing).

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tom_yesterday at 5:16 PM

I'm sure the standardization committee are always looking for fresh ideas!