Uphill

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On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 06:03:36 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> I find it hilarious that they can say that in a language that 
> needs a preprocessor. Macros (and mixins) destroy AST-based 
> tools, not things like "static if" that are right there in the 
> AST.

That's not right. "static if" is just as bad as macros and 
affects partial evaluation. Besides I think C++ is moving away 
from macros, and I believe it is a stated goal for BS to do so. I 
don't use macros in C++ anymore.