10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
7:11 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Thomas J�ger wrote:
Altogether, the spirit of the page seems to be "use as little syntactic sugar as possible" which maybe appropriate if it is aimed at newbies, who often overuse syntactic sugar (do-notation).
What I forgot: Each new syntactic sugar is something more, a reader must know, a compiler and debugger developer must implement and test, a source code formatter, highlighter, documentation extractor or code transformer must respect. We should try harder to reduce these extensions rather than inventing new ones. Leave the award for the most complicated syntax for C++! :-]