<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Baa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aquagnu@gmail.com" target="_blank">aquagnu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sure, but there is another point of view here. Alternative is to have<br>
flexible but elegant syntax embedded in language, instead of many-many<br>
extensions for any possibility - they "fragment" language. But of course<br>
this is controversial and ambiguous :-)</blockquote></div><br>The active patterns of F# that you mentioned can be seen as a counterargument :)<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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