• groctel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    At my previous workplace we had a C macro that was something like

    #define CheckWhatever(x__, true__, false__) \
        whatever(x) ? (true__) : (false__)
    

    I don’t remember this shit, so I’m just paraphrasing cursed C. The question one would ask is… why? Well, because you also want to do

    #define CheckWhatever2(x__, true__, false__) \
        CheckWhatever((x__ ##1), (true__), (false__)) \
        CheckWhatever((x__ ##2), (true__), (false__))
    

    And, of course

    #define CheckWhatever3(x__, true__, false__) \
        CheckWhatever2((x__ ##1), (true__), (false__)) \
        CheckWhatever2((x__ ##2), (true__), (false__))
    

    Long story short, someone wanted to CheckWhatever6 inside another macro. While debugging code old enough to vote, my editor suggested expanding the macro, which expanded to ~1400 lines for a single ternary operator chain. Fun times!