A Defer Mechanism for C

Re:A Defer Mechanism for C by whatshisface on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:11AM (#25418411)

>One of the key interest of C compared to more recent languages is that everything is explicit.

With macros this is not exactly true. I gesture towards the GObject system for an extremely complex situation in big important production software.

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Re:A Defer Mechanism for C by quelsolaar on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:02PM (#25419875)

I agree. I have tried to come up with some reasonable way to constrain macros, but its really hard!

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Re:A Defer Mechanism for C by whatshisface on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:09PM (#25422561)

The way to do it is, survey your macro use to identify common patterns, specify them formally, and then write a computer program that allows those patterns specifically but no others. In other words, design a higher-level language. ;)

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Re:A Defer Mechanism for C by desiderantes on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:09PM (#25425774)

Something like https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala ?

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