Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 27 Feb 2025 23:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:27:17 +0000, bart wrote:
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Problems involving \ and // commonly come up with multi-line macros.

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C macros are yet another example of the wrong way to do macros.
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The only right way to do macros is at the AST level.
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Think how many problems would be solved if you could do gensym in a C
macro.

Would you say that the Rust compiler's implementation is *close* to what
you expect?
The Rust compiler processes macros during tokenization, so it is not
exactly what you specified.  I am just curious.

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Ar Rakin