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... :)