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

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com>wrote:

> [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.
>

I think someone's already working on this (SugarHaskell?).

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