[Haskell-cafe] some ideas for Haskell', from Python
Martijn van Steenbergen
martijn at van.steenbergen.nl
Wed Jan 14 14:01:42 EST 2009
Tim Wawrzynczak wrote:
> Woah fellas, I wasn't trying to start a flame war, I was merely
> commenting that those who have not used Lisp don't really understand the
> power that macros can have in a language (such as Lisp) that supports
> them, and where code and data can be used interchangeably. And I've
> never used TH so I can't comment on that. Don't worry, I'm on your side :)
Oh, I didn't mean that in a bad way. :-)
I was just thinking that if something turns out hard to express in pure
functions, you can always resort to Template Haskell.
Martijn.
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