alexfh added a comment.

In D70974#1769036 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70974#1769036>, @gribozavr2 wrote:

> In D70974#1768902 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70974#1768902>, @aaron.ballman 
> wrote:
>
> > In D70974#1768871 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70974#1768871>, @gribozavr2 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not convinced this feature is worth implementing at all, because 
> > > there's a good alternative to a macro here -- a namespace alias. What is 
> > > the reason to use a macro instead of a namespace alias?
> >
> >
> > While I think that's a superior solution to using macros, some users have 
> > macros instead. This fixes a bug reported in 
> > https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26274 and I agree that the behavior 
> > described in that bug is not what I would expect it to be.
>
>
> I mean, it is possible to break pretty much any ClangTidy check with sneaky 
> code. But there's a limit to which we should try to make things work in 
> tricky corner cases. For example, the fix in this patch does not handle 
> function-like macros (`namespace MY_LIBRARY_NAMESPACE_FOR_VERSION(42) {`).
>
> LGTM if we must... but I don't think we should.


Apart from preprocessor-related stuff, this patch improves support for nested 
inline namespace declarations (`namespace a::inline b::c`), attributes on 
namespaces and comments inside namespace declarations. And also reduces the 
number of special cases. It should be a net positive effect ;)


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