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You seem to have ignored the long list of "possible typos similar to this one" that were my arguments for why the macro was better than having the developer copy/paste the code every time. The only argument you seem to be making is: "abstraction is bad"; I mean, this same argument (that abstraction hides functionality and values behind opaque names) is also the reason why developers should not write functions...

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