[pro] The Best Examples of "Code is Data"

[Attila Lendvai]

> macros that are useful and should be allowed.  It is just that
> anaphoric macros, despite all their cuteness, tax code readers
> unnecessarily hard and thus have not been adopted as acceptable
> practice in multi-programmer environments.


well, it's one opinion.

there's at least one counter example in our team of 4. and i
personally do like reasonable usage of anaphoric macros, even when
done by my colleagues. and the reason is exactly that it *rises* code
readability for us.

our practice includes special coloring for "it" and avoids any usage
which is not blatantly trivial.

-- 
 attila

PS: argh, i so much didn't want to join such a subjective
discussion... i need to meditate on this a bit more to successfully
resist next time. the first exercise will be to let go my opinion of
with-nesting... :)