@socks out of curiosity, what do you not like about macros?
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@Felthry They make it very difficult to debug when something is wrong. It's not a problem at all when it's something built into the language's standard library and thoroughly well-tested but as soon as you step out of that, you're walking on thin ice

@socks I'm guessing in this context it means something more complicated than how people typically use C preprocessor macros, then?

oh and assembler macros are hard to program without, i don't want to have to remember which memory location we stored this variable in and every location we referenced it in case we have to change it
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@Felthry @socks Elixir is more high-level. Also I think C macros are also dark magic that's hard to test

@noiob @socks when I say how people usually use them I'm talking about things like #define PI 3.14159f
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@Felthry @socks that's what math libraries are for

@Felthry @socks or constants, rather

@noiob @socks I don't see the point in occupying a bit of memory with a constant when you could just use a macro

i imagine compilers probably optimize that out anyway but eh, habit
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