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Re:Facebook open-sourcing Thrift, their software framework by brlewis on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:59AM (#8187)
Code generation...isn't that what macros are for?
Re:Facebook open-sourcing Thrift, their software framework by rsynnott on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @07:42AM (#8498)
In languages which have decent ones, certainly. Of the five languages this library seems to work for, only C++ has any sort of macros at all, as far as I know...