Allow multiline macro calls without backslashes

ID:2841353
 
Dec 12 2022, 9:53 pm
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Status: Open
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Currently, in order to call a macro over multiple lines, you need to use backslashes.

DO_SOMETHING( \
    thing, \
    thing2 \
)


This is unlike procs, which support this fine:

do_something(
    thing,
    thing2
)


This is also unlike C++, where this works fine:

#include <stdio.h>

#define ADD_NUMBERS(x, y) x + y

int main() {
    printf("%d", ADD_NUMBERS(
        1,
        2
    ));
}
Dec 12 2022, 9:59 pm
+1, would be nice
Dec 17 2023, 3:04 am
I still really want this because I want to be able to do something like:

- Statically lint for required arguments (macros do this, though BYOND should likely have this built in somehow)
- Statically lint for CONSTANT arguments (a future improvement to SS13 logging is going to include requiring that a string is not templated, for reasons)
Dec 17 2023, 3:09 am
Oh, and also because __IMPLIED_TYPE__ was implemented to only work in macros (🙁) this is also made even more tantalizing. I do not want contributors to have to guess which "procs" need backslashes and which don't.
Jan 8, 12:28 pm
+1, would make macros a lot more readable