• bearophile (4/4) Feb 08 2008 A very nice explanation of the social dangers of macro (like the future ...
• Walter Bright (8/11) Feb 08 2008 Definitely, with macros you can fairly easily descend into

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

A very nice explanation of the social dangers of macro (like the future D
ones), they may be good for the programmer but bad for the community:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg00247.html

Bye,
bearophile

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 A very nice explanation of the social dangers of macro (like the
 future D ones), they may be good for the programmer but bad for the
 community: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg00247.html


Definitely, with macros you can fairly easily descend into 
incomprehensibility. You can with templates, too. I find Boost template 
usage to be way beyond comprehensibility for me. D templates are much 
easier to understand, but they can be way out there, too, if you're not 
careful.

The author blames the adoption problems with Lisp on macros, and 
dismisses the syntax. For me, it's the syntax. It's just off-putting.