... programmer¹

In the future, the translation could be done by an automated compiler. Ideally, this would allow arbitrary C code to be compiled and interpreted by the Abbey.

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... arguments²

Strictly speaking, a macro in C cannot have a variable number of arguments; therefore, ABY_CALL is actually a macro with no arguments at all and expands to the name of a function with a variable number of arguments.

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