[Haskell-cafe] lambda case (was Re: A big hurray for lambda-case (and all the other good stuff))

[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.

-- Dan Burton
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