That approach doesn't work well for, e.g., decision-table macros, report-generator macros.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 7:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: looking for limbo languages - how low can you go? On 7/18/23 15:10:47, Phil Smith III wrote: > Rick wrote about C and its power. As he noted, I *was* referring to the macro > language/preprocessor when I said "pathetic". Because it is. It's old enough > that it really should be more mature. Pascal has no macros. If the language is (FSVO) sufficiently complete it shouldn't need them. Perhaps expanding subroutines inline for optimization. -- gil
