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<p>The original idea of passing two extra parameters to REPEAT, which makes it
possible to create preprocessor code on top of it, was due to Aleksey Gurtovoy.
The invokeable IDENTITY macro was also invented by him. He also suggested the
name for the library. Many thanks to Aleksey for his insights!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who participated in the review: David Abrahams, Beman Dawes,
Ronald Garcia, Douglas Gregor, Aleksey Gurtovoy, Jeremy Siek, and Daryle Walker.</p>
<p>Thanks to Chris Little and Mat Marcus for providing help with MWCW.</p>
<p>The PREPROCESSOR library has been developed by Vesa Karvonen. </p>
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<p>C++ programming sometimes involves repeating lists of template or function
parameters. Such repetition is troublesome, because it tends to be done manually,
which means that the maximum number of parameters is bound into the design of
the program making it difficult to configure. Automating the repetition using
extra linguistic tools introduces another set of problems.</p>
<p>The C preprocessor is part of the C++ language and can manipulate and generate
tokens. Unfortunately the C preprocessor is also a very low level macro processor.
In particular, it doesn't directly support repetition or recursion. Fortunately
it is possible to perform finite repetition and recursion using a library of
preprocessor primitives.</p>
<p>The PREPROCESSOR library provides facilities for C preprocessor metaprogramming.
Preprocessor metaprogramming makes it possible to generate function and template
parameter lists and make libraries configurable through preprocessor definitions.</p>
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<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
<p>The original idea of passing two extra parameters to REPEAT, which makes it
possible to create preprocessor code on top of it, was due to Aleksey Gurtovoy.
The invokeable IDENTITY macro was also invented by him. He also suggested the
name for the library. Many thanks to Aleksey for his insights!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who participated in the review: David Abrahams, Beman Dawes,
Ronald Garcia, Douglas Gregor, Aleksey Gurtovoy, Jeremy Siek, and Daryle Walker.</p>
<p>Thanks to Chris Little and Mat Marcus for providing help with MWCW.</p>
<p>The PREPROCESSOR library has been developed by
<a href="../../../people/vesa_karvonen.htm">Vesa Karvonen</a>.</p>
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<p>
Preprocessor metaprogramming is subject to heated discussions. Part of this is caused by
<p>Preprocessor metaprogramming is subject to heated discussions. Part of this is caused by
bad experiences with dangerous techniques, such as defining inline functions using macros. As a rule
of thumb, if you can find a clean and
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<P><EM><B>In practice, preprocessor metaprogramming is far simpler and more portable
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Motivation">Motivation</a></li>
<li><a href="#Techniques">Preprocessor Metaprogramming Techniques</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Local Macro">Use a Local Macro to avoid small scale repetition</a></li>
<li><a href="#UNUSED">Use BOOST_PP_EMPTY as an unused parameter in Local
Macro instantiations</a></li>
<li><a href="#CAT">Use BOOST_PP_CAT instead of ## when necessary</a></li>
<li><a href="#STRINGIZE">Use BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE instead of # whenever necessary</a></li>
<li><a href="#ENUM_PARAMS">Avoid O(N) repetition on lists in general</a></li>
<li><a href="#Conditional Define">Use a Conditional Define to enable user configuration of code repetition</a></li>
<li><a href="#Token Look-Up">Use Token Look-Up Function to eliminate categorical repetition</a></li>
<li><a href="#2ND_REPEAT">Use BOOST_PP_REPEAT_2ND to avoid O(N*N) repetition</a></li>
<li><a href="#IF">Use BOOST_PP_IF to implement special case for the first element</a>
<li><a href="#Arithmetic">Use arithmetic, logical and comparison operations when necessary</a>
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<dt><a href="#Motivation">Motivation</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#Techniques">Preprocessor Metaprogramming Techniques</a>
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<dt><a href="#Local Macro">Use a Local Macro to avoid small scale repetition</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#UNUSED">Use BOOST_PP_EMPTY as an unused parameter in Local
Macro instantiations</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#CAT">Use BOOST_PP_CAT instead of ## when necessary</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#STRINGIZE">Use BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE instead of # whenever necessary</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#ENUM_PARAMS">Avoid O(N) repetition on lists in general</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#Conditional Define">Use a Conditional Define to enable user configuration of code repetition</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#Token Look-Up">Use Token Look-Up Function to eliminate categorical repetition</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#2ND_REPEAT">Use BOOST_PP_REPEAT_2ND to avoid O(N*N) repetition</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#IF">Use BOOST_PP_IF to implement special case for the first element</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#Arithmetic">Use arithmetic, logical and comparison operations when necessary</a></dt>
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<h2><a name="Motivation">Motivation</a></h2>
<p>The C++ function and template parameter lists are special syntactic constructs
and it is impossible to directly manipulate or generate them using C++ constructs.
This leads to unnecessary code repetition.</p>
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