On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 18:28:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 01:45 -0800, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 1/3/2016 11:40 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> There's of course AST macros as well, which have many other
> good
> use cases.
> Unfortunately you don't like those either :(
Neither Andrei nor I have changed our minds on that one.
Pity I like good AST transforms: Groovy, Scala, Lisp, Clojure,
Rust… C++ template meta-programming isn't really my cup of tea.
Rusts macros show it can be done well.
I agree heavily with this, it feels like an arbitrary limitation.
D did wonders in making template metaprogramming usable compared
to C++, but sometimes it feels like trying to pound nails in with
a screwdriver.
I think just looking at the kind of stuff being done in languages
that enable AST macros might change minds.
