12 Oct
2001
12 Oct
'01
9:38 p.m.
Dylan Thurston:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:02:07PM +0100, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
Sadly, there's not a concrete proposal - it seems that no one sees a need for macros in a lazy language. Most of what they do can be achieved through laziness - you can write "if" in Haskell already, for example, whereas you need a macro for it in Lisp. Your arrow notation example may provide some motivation, though.
I wonder if macros could also be used to implement views.
They are heavily used in Clean, so, there *are* people who see a need for them in a lazy language. Jerzy Karczmarczuk Caen, France