> On Jun 22, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>
> wrote:
>
> 'Nice' is not an argument.
>
> If someone else assumes that assert() works as expected - i.e. throws an
> exception, then your macro will mess up his code, leading to
> unpredictable results.
>
> From my - admittedly subjective - point of view, your examples only serve to
> demonstrate why we should definitely not support macros...
For any example I can give it’s easy to extrapolate into some scenario where it
would be a disaster. I get that. The reason I ever wanted to make a macro was
for personal use to give some project specific meaning to some construct or a
quick hack. Frameworks like Apple uses, often use macros to document parts of
code in a way which otherwise isn’t part of the language and no suitable for
comments. I’m not saying this is how we all should program. I don’t suggest
people go out and start using macros in place of functions.
Btw why was the $define:= syntax ever introduced in the first place? adding a
parameter to the syntax is a minor extension but it sounds like Pascal
programers here really don’t like it in general.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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