[Oberon] Why macros were not implemented in oberon language?

Stefan Salewski mail at ssalewski.de
Sat Jul 5 23:34:25 CEST 2014


On Sat, 2014-07-05 at 10:32 -0400, Nemo wrote:
> On 5 July 2014 06:03,  <oberon at moravcik.info> wrote (in part):
> > Sometimes I am asking myself why prof. Wirth did not implement macros in his language?
> 
> Macros are of dubious value and the source of much error.  (For
> example, Misra C places very tight restrictions on their use.)
> 

You should not confuse C's simple text replacing of the preprocessor
with real Macros of modern languages.





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