From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] multiple inputs
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:31:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc59a5b4b981440e405f12822643ee6b@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13f1d7af5d5cba9ea39f9b75adc4996a@cwru.edu>
> What do the 9fans think of hygenic macros?
dunno what others think but i reckon macros (hygienic or not) make it
much harder to maintain a program. you have to get through the custom
syntax before you can start seeing what's really going on.
if you need that kind of expressivity, consider writing an
interpreter, a translator or a preprocessor.
limbo doesn't have macros, and although i've occasionally thought "a
macro would be nice here" the benefits of having all source code in
standard form far outweigh the costs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-30 6:53 npe
2004-03-30 8:22 ` matt
2004-03-30 11:48 ` glenda
2004-03-30 14:03 ` matt
2004-03-30 12:10 ` glenda
2004-03-30 16:07 ` rog
2004-03-30 14:15 ` Noah Evans
2004-03-30 16:25 ` rog
2004-03-30 16:14 ` Noah Evans
2004-03-30 18:27 ` rog
2004-03-30 16:28 ` Noah Evans
2004-03-31 20:22 ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-01 13:01 ` Noah Evans
2004-04-01 15:31 ` rog [this message]
2004-04-01 14:43 ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-01 16:26 ` Russ Cox
2004-04-01 17:36 ` rog
2004-04-01 15:58 ` Noah Evans
2004-04-01 18:42 ` rog
2004-04-01 17:34 ` Noah Evans
2004-04-01 19:47 ` rog
2004-04-01 18:02 ` Noah Evans
2004-04-02 1:48 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-04-01 20:04 ` David Tolpin
2004-04-02 1:46 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-04-02 2:09 Noah Evans
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