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Markus E Leypold wrote:
> This is only necessary because C/C++ has no way to specify a
> constant array (i.e. a "array literal").

Not really. The preprocessor stuff is generating program code as
well as data. Think about "properties" - you need to code a getter,
a setter, a place to hold the value, a type, a descriptive string,
and so forth. The language syntax may not allow all of this to be
in one place, and that's where macros can come in handy.