Re: Uphill

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 04:18:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Furthermore, the adoption of this
feature would seriously compromise our ability to produce AST- 
based tools
for C++, and therefore put C++ at a further disadvantage 
compared to other
modern languages vis a vis tool support.

I find it hilarious that they can say that in a language that 
needs a preprocessor. Macros (and mixins) destroy AST-based 
tools, not things like "static if" that are right there in the 
AST.