[pskocik]

It's a common (gcc/clang/tcc) compiler extension (chapter 6.1 of the gcc manual) that allows you to use parentheses around a compound statement to turn the compound statement into an expression whose value is the last statement in the compound statement. For example `({ int _r; if((_r=foo())) bar(); _r })` behaves like an inline function that returns `_r`. If you want to do generic vector ops purely with macros and you want to do it robustly, you effectively need for the macros to "return" a value signalling whether the potential realloc that might have happened inside the macro succeeded or not. It's a very powerful feature because it allows you to have macros that behave like ducktyped, value-returning inline functions. (Sometimes you'll need to tone down the ducktyping a little, like it's probably a good idea to use some __typeof__-based typechecks (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41250083/typechecking-in-...) to make the compiler warn you if you attempt to memcpy doubles into an int vector from your vector__insert method.)

[swift]

Thank you! I've never seen this before; looks handy.