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The preprocessor is increasingly becoming redundant because of equivalent C++ language-based features. The const keyword allows constant identifiers to be defined. Macros are replaced by inline functions, with the template feature defining and declaring type-independent functions and classes. We shall see in the next chapter that the namespace feature associates a name to a given scope. All of const, inline, template and namespace are statically type-checked, whereas the preprocessor bypasses the static type checking mechanism of C++.
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Seed, G.M. (1996). The Preprocessor. In: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3378-0_18
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