Can I redefine a C++ macro then define it back?

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As greyfade pointed out, your ___T___ trick doesn’t work because the preprocessor is a pretty simple creature. An alternative approach is to use pragma directives:

 // juice includes here
 #pragma push_macro("T")
 #undef T
 // include boost headers here
 #pragma pop_macro("T")

That should work in MSVC++ and GCC has added support for pop_macro and push_macro for compatibility with it. Technically it is implementation-dependent though, but I don’t think there’s a standard way of temporarily suppressing the definition.

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