Talk about ends, rather than means, in macro tutorial introduction.
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# Introduction
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Functions are the primary tool that programmers can use to build
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abstractions. Sometimes, though, programmers want to abstract over
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compile-time, syntactic structures rather than runtime values. For example,
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the following two code fragments both pattern-match on their input and return
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early in one case, doing nothing otherwise:
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Functions are the primary tool that programmers can use to build abstractions.
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Sometimes, however, programmers want to perform abstractions over things that are not
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runtime values. Macros provide a syntactic abstraction. For an example of how this
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can be useful, consider the following two code fragments, which both pattern-match
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on their input and return early in one case, and do nothing otherwise:
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~~~~
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# enum t { special_a(uint), special_b(uint) };
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