Re: [9front] [PATCH] Fix assert macro to not break on commas

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@gmail.com>:
> On 11/26/23 13:13, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> > Quoth Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@gmail.com>:
> >> I'm just new around here.
> > 
> > In general, we try pretty hard to avoid doing stuff
> > in macros. There are places where it's unavoidable,
> > but excluding ape, there's more #ifdef in ghostscript
> > than in the rest of the system combined.
> > 
> 
> I don't understand why you're bringing up ifdefs.  That's a completely 
> different part of the preprocessor, unrelated to macros (though usable 
> in combination with them).
> 
> What reason have y'all for avoiding macros?

Well, the fact that you need hacks like the one that started this
thread, for one; what if you had  macro that took *two* arguments?

	#define assert_msg(cond, msg) \
		...what here?

I don't see how you can avoid just saying "it's a macro, it's going
to be weird, don't even try".