ConceptDefer / DEFER
Deferred Expansion
A technique in C preprocessor macro programming in which a placeholder macro prevents a recursive invocation from expanding during the current scan round, deferring expansion until the next scan round, thereby simulating loops or multiple rounds of expansion.
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Oct 18
Deferred expansion (defer) and placeholder tricks can bypass the preprocessor's restriction on recursive macro expansion to simulate loop effects.
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Oct 18
The cost of deferred expansion tricks is a sharp drop in macro code readability.
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