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Date: Thu,  1 Apr 2004 16:31:24 +0100
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> 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.