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by kazinator 1163 days ago
Thanks for posting. A bunch of time ago I was actually looking for MyDef for some reason, but I couldn't remember the exact name and couldn't find it.

You could have a replacement for M4 there.

I made a macro preprocessor in 1999 called MPP which also was able to preserve whitespace in perpetrating multi-line expansions, and so suitable even in indentation-sensitive formats. MPP has scopes and also a namespace system. I didn't develop it further because right around that time, I discovered Lisp and, you know ...