On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Dan Burton <danburton.em...@gmail.com>wrote:
> [featureX] is usually too powerful, it surely would be abused extensively, >> which would make developer's life a nightmare, unless there is only one >> developer and whole development takes no more than a couple of months. > > > This doesn't say much about *why* syntax extension is too powerful, nor *how > *that would lead to extensive abuse. Well, "too powerful" or not, > meta-programming should be more easily available at least at *some *layer > of language development without having to resort to hacking the compiler. > I think someone's already working on this (SugarHaskell?). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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