Translating C macros to D

[Cym13 via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 19:42:28 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a generic way to translate function 
> like C macros to D to be used in DStep.
>
> [...]

Is not getting rid of the macro an option? By that I mean 
translating the code inside the macro (which can admitedly be 
hard because it doesn't have to be semanticaly correct code due 
to concatenations but most macros aren't so evil) and add a pass 
of cpp to the build.

Of course nobody wants to use the C preprocessor on D code, but 
it would work and I'd prefer ugly code that works and can be 
refactored than no working translation at all personnaly.