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		marginalia_nu 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro Preprocessor is just doing text transformations on the sources. It's not really something that can be fixed, other than moving away from the preprocessor and putting metaprogramming capabilities into the language itself (which C++ has been doing).

amelius 19 days ago [–]

I mean, you could extend it such that a simple comma has no special meaning.

But I agree, fewer special tricks is better and that includes the preprocessor.

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