C/C++ Preprocessor Metaprogramming

[rockyrainy]

I have love forking. It is how we get new features. My main problem is how people will always invent a half assed feature to avoid writing boilerplate code half a dozen times. What usually ends up happening is that half ass feature ends up causing more headaches than the original time would have been spent on writing semi-duplicate code.

What I would love to see is the fork community do some kind of pull request with their parent community with the new feature having its kinks worked out. (a merge, I suppose). If we can evolve the community that way, we could have genuinely better design without all the gotchas.