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On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:25:02 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 12:39:13 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On the other hand, AST macros have been officially rejected 
>> and that I like a lot :)
>
> Hi.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what are the evils of AST macros (or 
> could you point me to something you like on the topic)?

There was extended discussion in old threads but short summary of 
my opinion is:

- allows implicit changes to language semantics (== learning new 
framework is effectively learning new language)
- overlaps in functionality with mixins for majority of use cases
- less intuitive to newcomers (though cleaner/safer to 
experienced programmers, I admit that)
- requires standard (and stable!) AST format