title: What is #nomacros (EP003), and is it alive?
body: <p>The <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1598.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Evolution WG Issues List of 14 February 2004</a> has ...</p>
  
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    <p>EP003. #nomacros. See EI001. Note by
    Stroustrup to be written.</p>
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  <p>In rough (or exact) terms, what is <code>#nomacros</code>, and is it available as an extension anywhere?  It would have been a useful diagnostic tool in a recent project involving porting thousands of files of 1995-vintage C++ to a 2005 compiler, compared to the alternative of running the code through the preprocessor and examining the .i files for surprise packages.</p>