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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.)