Dylan Thurston: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:02:07PM +0100, Keith Wansbrough wrote: > > Sadly, there's not a concrete proposal - it seems that no one sees a > > need for macros in a lazy language. Most of what they do can be > > achieved through laziness - you can write "if" in Haskell already, for > > example, whereas you need a macro for it in Lisp. Your arrow notation > > example may provide some motivation, though. > > I wonder if macros could also be used to implement views.
They are heavily used in Clean, so, there *are* people who see a need for them in a lazy language. Jerzy Karczmarczuk Caen, France _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
