[gibibit]

It is a clever trick. Very useful in C also, maybe more than in C++.

It can be overused, though.

Kind of works like Rust declarative macros (`macro_rules!`) in that it is often used to repeat and expand something common across an axis of things that vary.

It's funny that the simple name X Macros has stuck and is a de facto standard. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_macro suggests they date to the 1960s.