On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Dan Burton
[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 allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net