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Couldn't it be written as a template?

It would be quite helpful to specify in a comment in which corner of the screen is (0, 0) located to avoid the usual confusion.

Depending on the context "inside" may confuse the reader, I'd rename is_inside() to valid().

Also, s/custompos/name/ in the sample code.

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Yeah please don't use macros unless made absolutely necessary by lack of language support. Let alone 100 line macros ☹️ .

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This kind of feature is not possible with templates. At least not unless there is some reflexivity in the language, which may be possible with c++20.
If we were to do this in C++, the macro is the only way to go.

But since this is one ugly macro, we probably do not want to use it. I added it for reference. The best way to go is to generate a file with what would be the expansion of this macro. stechec2-generator could write the C++ file directly. Note that it is not very different to have it done by, ruby, python, or a C++ macro, but at least once the code is generated, we have some clean C++ code.

Also with c++20, we will be able to get rid of the comparison operators, but this is in a long time.

I have indeed forgotten to remove custompos for the macro, I’ll edit the post.

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So, what is the problem in simply copy pasting the file from year to year?

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It makes writing the rules slower. And copy/pasting is often a bad thing.

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From a discussion on IRC, I think we agree on the fact that this is like a third party dependency you would inline like a stackoverflow snippet etc, and it's game-specific so there's little need to generate that.

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