What is the 'macro' keyword for?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:35:23PM -0700, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> It is listed as a reserved keyword
> 
> - in TDPL
> 
> - at http://dlang.org/lex.html
> 
> - at https://github.com/bhelyer/SDC/blob/master/src/sdc/token.d
> 
> Is it still used? What is/was it for?
[...]

AFAIK, it is reserved for the future possibility of some kind of macro
system (perhaps an AST transformation system). I don't think it's
currently used in any way.


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