Searching for a journal paper on C++ design

Fairly recently I read an interesting paper that evaluated the success
of C++ at eliminating the need for a preprocessor. It showed how
difficult it is to write simple C++ code that replaces common C macros
such as:
        #define MAX(x,y) ((x)>(y)?(x):(y))
The essence of the problem was in trying to achieve the same level of
polymorphism. It went through the possibilities including function
overloading and templates.


I thought that I had read this article in ACM SIGPLAN Notices within the
past year, but I checked back very carefully for three years and could
not find it. I also checked three years of Dr. Dobb's Journal.


Can anyone help me find this article, I need to reference it in a
current work. Duplicating the discussion is quite space consuming. I
tried asking this question on comp.lang.misc, but got no replies.


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