On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 05:58:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:54:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
It sounds to me like you're too against macros for your own
good. Sure, they suck, but that's just life with C++ unless
you want to make life harder for yourself. Simply wishing that
the
But it doesn't make my C++ life harder, it makes my C++ life
better. I don't need them, where I would use macros in C, I can
usually make do with a constexpr or a template and get type
safety and more readable code.
But I hope you see my point that __FILE__ and __LINE__ would be
better done with introspection, also in D? Such "magic cookies"
are signs of a lack of orthogonality.
(And it can be done as hidden registers/parameters in the
language implementation so that you can have separate
compilation and compile time evaluation of introspection where
possible.)
D's semantics for __FILE__ and __LINE__ are so much better than
C++'s. I sorely miss D's semantics for them whenever I'm in C++.
Having them get the values from the call site rather than the
declaration site is so much more useful that it's not even funny.
- Jonathan M Davis
