"Macros" may be evil but "grafts" are perfectly sensible operations on trees. To hear some tell it, it's the best way to propagate some low-hanging fruit. Wait, am I mixing metaphors?
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > > I'll watch from the other side as we wait for the last "macros are evil" > programmer to die. Oh but we just found a reason in a different thread that > will keep C alive, so perhaps you'll join me there first :-) > > > > > > > On May 12, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > At Mon, 12 May 2014 11:06:11 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > >> > >> On May 12, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> To be fair, that will be difficult given how often the docs refer to > the > >> m-word ;) > >> > >> > >> Yes, I am losing this battle even with those of my own students who > work on > >> syntactic matters (Matthew, Ryan, and Shriram). > > > > I tried for a while to avoid the word, but it was too awkward. Some of > > the world has since caught up to the idea that "macros" can be good, > > and I expect that the rest of the world will catch up. > > > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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