> On Nov 3, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Dave DeLong via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
> That’s cool, but a hygienic macro system isn’t anywhere on the Swift roadmap.
>
> Chris has mentioned in interviews that such a system is "a big feature that’s
> open-ended and requires a huge design process” which makes off-the-table for
> Swift 5, and (I’m guessing) unlikely for Swift 6 too.
>
> Personally I’d like to be able to better debug my apps in Swift 4.1 rather
> than waiting another 2 or 3 years for a magical macro system to somehow solve
> this.
Heh. I sort of feel that adding procedural macros to a language with a complex
syntax and semantics like Swift doesn’t make much sense at all. I would be
pretty strongly opposed to any macro system proposal unless a compelling case
could be made that it would improve implementation quality by significantly
simplifying the code (for example, by moving parts of the type checker into the
standard library).
Slava
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