[orwin]

I'd say its not really a workaround, its a feature. And a hard one to use well. But as someone said in another comment, i think reading the preprocessor in C and especially C++ with the templating is really interesting and help a lot understand how the OG team behind the code used to work. Some tricks are "too clever" for me originally, but with proper documentation on these tricks, i understand tehm and sometime, i have a sudden hindsight/sudden clarity (i don't know how to say it, its a bit like entering the zone?)