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steveklabnik on Dec 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust is mostly safety

They do expand to code. They shouldn't mess up debugging or confuse tooling. They're much more similar to Lisp-style macros than the C preprocessor.

nurettin on Dec 30, 2016 [–]

Oh, ok, the word macro is heavily overloaded and it seems I misinterpreted the Rust use of macros. But oh boy it costs lots of rep to ask a question.

kibwen on Dec 30, 2016 | [–]

Trust me, every C and Lisp programmer in the world is upset that both languages use "macro" to mean such wildly different things. :)

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