On 11 May 2011, at 14:35, Joerg Schuelke wrote:

Hmmm, I think about macros for pascal with parameters for some time, and
ask you now: where is the debugging macro used inside the whole
compiler sources? Nowhere, because it is nearly impossible to write
some really useful.

I think the answer is rather "nowhere, because the developers don't have a need for them". I can't remember ever thinking "I wish I could do this with macro support, but unfortunately that's not possible so I have to do it in another and less convenient way" while working on the compiler. This obviously doesn't mean that there are no cases where other people may consider macro support to be quite handy, but I'm personally not missing anything as far as compiler development is concerned.


Jonas
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