Explanation of macros; Haskell macros

Pascal Costanza costanza at web.de
Thu Oct 30 20:11:26 EST 2003


Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> I'm not saying that the cost is obviously too high but that it's a
> tradeoff, macros don't come for free. And that there are other ideas which
> can replace many macros with different tradeoffs: namely a richer builtin
> syntax and concise anonymous functions. In a lazy language there are yet
> fewer uses of macros.

Ahh, the "in 99% of all cases" argument once again...


Pascal





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