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		jb1991 on Aug 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things to commit just before leaving your job Perhaps the most enlightening (and actually useful) purpose of this file is to dramatize the glaring weakness in the c/c++ macro system. A proper macro system would not make it so easy to do this, shall we say, "evil", stuff :)

gberger on Aug 19, 2015 | [–]

Ruby too:

    class Fixnum
      def +(other)
        self - other
      end
    end

    10 + 3 
    >>> 7

_clhx on Aug 19, 2015 | [–]

You can do some gross stuff in Python, as well!

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