> The patterns should be as close to C as possible.  Thus, in general syntax 
> extensions are unacceptable.

That is a pity. - I imagine that more programming and scripting languages could
benefit from the semantic patch language.


> Ideally, the user should be able to do everything he wants from knowing 
> the patch format and from an example that shows how to declare some 
> metavariables.

I like this goal, too.


> I realize that the current state of the language might not meet up to that 
> ideal :)

About which open issues do you think here?


> It would certainly be possible to make a language that has a lot more 
> kinds of different decorations, but that is not the goal of this 
> particular project, and that might not meet the needs of quite the same 
> user community.

I hope that current limitations can be removed in the future. The support for
additional features will result in more work and efforts that you would like to
avoid at the moment, wouldn't you?

Regards,
Markus
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