On Sunday, 23 May 2021 at 08:35:31 UTC, Tony wrote:
On Saturday, 15 May 2021 at 21:15:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: Why is metaprogramming added features better than the same features added in the language? One is standard between entities, the other is not.
There are many reasons, one important one is consistency and being able to prove that the type system is sound/reasonable.
Syntactic sugar is ok though, so adding syntax does not create problems as long as what it expands to can be expressed constuctively using exising language constructs.
