[k0k0r0]

Technically, this is true, but most C++ programmers are very reluctant to use macros except for stuff like include guards or stuff like NDEBUG.

The reason is mainly the many language construct of C++ cover most traditional use cases of macros when programming C while at the same time being much less error prone than macros.

A sibling show how one easily can achieve the very same thing using short lambdas instead. That variant is also bound to the scope one is currently in, and in order to have that safety with a macro one would need to undefine the macros afterwards. One would also need to check that they are not yet defined beforehand, and if so restore the previous macro afterwards in order to not break completely unrelated code in case of macro name clashes.

[wruza]

Yep, #defines are non-lexical and add way too much clutter to be useful in this case, even when you’re non-reluctant in general.