Is there a way to mimic the behaviour of C/C++'s preprocessor for
macros? The problem: a lot of code like this:
def foo():
# .... do some stuff
if debug:
emit_dbg_obj(DbgObjFoo(a,b,c))
# .... do more stuff
if debug:
emit_dbg_obj(DbgObjBar(d,e))
# ... and so on ...
Notes:
* the two-lines of debug conditional tend to really break up the flow
of the surrounding code
* in C you could wrap them with a macro so you could do
DEBUG_EMIT(DbgObjFoo(a,b,c)), etc, with the macro only instantiating
the object and processing it if the debug flag was set. The one-liner
is MUCH less disruptive visually when reading code
* using
def debug_emit(obj):
if debug:
emit_dbg_obj(obj)
is a poor solution, because it *always* instantiates DbgObj*, even when
not needed; I want to avoid such unnecessary waste
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