On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Quincey Morris <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote:
> The thing that bothers me is why macros should be substituting into method > parameter names at all. The preprocessor barely knows anything about C syntax, let alone Obj-C. Remember, it’s running before the parser — all it gets is a stream of tokens. It just sees an identifier followed by a “:”, and there’s a macro defined for that identifier, so it substitutes it. > It potentially brings *pieces* of method names into the global symbol > namespace -- which is basically what happened to Paul, if you look at his > problem from the other end. That possibility seems nightmarish to me. “Nightmarish” is a pretty good description of the malign possibilities of the C preprocessor in general. :-P —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
