do...until wisdom needed...

[Neelakantan Krishnaswami]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:03:38 +0200, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, 'hygienic macros' WOULD help cut these discussions short.  Pity
> this benefit (basically restricted to c.l.p) would be balanced by
> the productivity loss engendered by the actual existence of such
> macros in the language -- a language which may have ANY 'syntactic
> feature' ensures any given program is impossible to understand
> unless you first study the exact set of macros used by its
> author:-).

I note that precisely the same argument can be made about adding
functions to a language.


Neel