wrote:

>obviously you haven't seen my macro collection :)

that would be quite interesting to see those macros you use to work
with bcb


I personally have lots of one-liners such as
BEGIN_END_UPDATE(SomeObject)
SAVE_RESTORE_PROPERTY(PropName,TObject*,SetValue)
SHOW_HIDE_BUSY(BusyMessage,ProgressMin,ProgressMax)
SAVE_RESTORE_CURSOR
DISABLE_ENABLE_CONTROLS(DataSet)
SAVE_RESTORE_BOOKMARK(DataSet)
etc. not to mention numerous ON_BLOCK_EXIT, ON_BLOCK_EXIT_OBJ and
other scopeguards created from variadic macros


that would be lots of deeply nested try/finally's nightmare if I used
delphi to create the very same code


so while using macros are error-prone sometimes (especially for those
who have no experience with them) they're inevitable at the same time
for those who like to write compact and expressive code


-- 
Vladimir Ulchenko aka vavan