Feature request: macros

[LianaHus]

(moved) see original issue here: ethereum/aleth#2437

[zitterbewegung]

This feature sounds interesting . Would people prefer a hygienic syntactic macro system?

[zitterbewegung]

Something similar to http://www.sweetjs.org

[wjmelements]

What I want out of this feature is C-PreProcessor-style macros, and also compiler support to output a flattened file. The import logic would also live inside of this preprocessor.

[chriseth]

@wjmelements input files should not be flattened and not all ways to compile a contract system can be done on a flattened file. preprocessor style macros are also very hard to check, I would not support implementing them as part of the compiler.

[axic]

Can we close this issue since it provides no syntactical suggestion and it is pretty much useless?