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[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 09:13:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 08:51:00 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> While C++ programmers should try and avoid the preprocessor as 
>> much as possible, sometimes it just isn't possible to do so. 
>> There's just no other way to generate code sometimes. I know, 
>> I've tried.
>
> In what case is this true? If it is only to avoid some boiler 
> plate then it is not a good excuse, IMO. You can usually avoid 
> macros by restructuring composition (using multiple layers of 
> templates).

I'll take a macro over boilerplate any day of the week and twice 
on Sundays.

Atila