Macro systems add tons of power to a language. That power can be used to create really simple code but more often then not it will be used to create horrible code. I think this is perhaps my least favorite thing about Haskell. I feel like ML family languages are already pretty terse as they are and don't need much help to make them "prettier". One of the best things about Elm is that it routinely rejects power for simplicity. I'm personally very happy with the current HTML syntax and see no benefit in that area. If some sort of syntax becomes widely useful (which is rare, as it should be) then it should be added to the language. I think a 3rd party thing akin to http://sweetjs.org/ would be a good playground to play with new syntax, however this shouldn't be widely used as a good idea.
On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 1:26:55 PM UTC-6, Isaac Shapira wrote: > > Continuing the discussion started here: > > https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1413 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
