On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 09:12:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
I do understand this. I've not only extensively used macro
systems, I've designed two successful ones and implemented
other peoples' designs.
I've also seen the sheer awfulness of what happens with these
systems over the long term. The fascinating thing about this
awfulness is people are well aware of it in everyone's macro
libraries but their own.
What kind of macro systems are you talking about? C-like macros?
Assembly macros? Lisp-like macros? It seems that Jacob's proposed
system is similar to none of these.