Are there macro facility for Java or C#?

Question

Macros are useful.

Therefore, I occasionally bemoan the absence of macros in Java and C#. Macros allow me to force in-line but allow me the code-manageability of non

Answer 1

Take a look at project Lombok - http://projectlombok.org/features/Log.html

It is an annotation library that allows the following code snip-it - which (I believe) is exactly what you are speaking of.

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Log;

 @Log
 public class LogExample {

   public static void main(String... args) {
     log.error("Something's wrong here");
   }
 }

 @Log(java.util.List.class)
 public class LogExampleOther {

   public static void main(String... args) {
     log.warn("Something might be wrong here");
   }
 }