Uphill

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

> I'd say C has embraced macros for good reasons, as a 
> minimalistic language design strategy  (newest C version using 
> it for generics), but C++ has no longer an excuse for providing 
> it.

Excuses for C++ :

1. Backwards compatibility with existing C++ code
2. Being able to call C code that depends on macro definitons to 
actually work
3. The aforementioned cases in which templates can't do the job

With regards to #3: see when you use `mixin` in D code? You need 
a macro to achieve the equivalent task in C++. It's either that 
or boilerplate. Yay when I get to write D, boo when I just have 
to use C++. I feel dirty every time I type `#define`, but I'd 
feel dirtier if I repeated code all over the place. As always, 
it's a trade-off.

Atila