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by skeet via Jon Skeet's Coding Blog : C# on 2/8/2008 11:31:32 PM
Ian Griffiths mailed me about macros, and explained how LISP macros were very different to C/C++ macros, working at a language level instead of at a text level. I won't pretend to understand all about what would be possible and what wouldn't, but Ian gave a good example: query expressions in C# 3. Instead of being part of the language itself, they could apparently have been written as macros, if C# supported them. Then if you wanted to have similar support for different forms of expressi
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