5 May
2005
5 May
'05
12:43 a.m.
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:11:05PM -0400, Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)" <SeeWebsiteForEmail@moderncppdesign.com> wrote
If Perl is better then C++ preprocessor, then it should become C++ preprocessor. But it needs to be built-in, otherwise these are apples against oranges.
With all due respect this misses the point completely. We don't need a better text substitution tool for C++. We need something that includes headers, also pragmas, and conditional compilation, the rest IMHO is macro hackery and extra lingustic. /ikh