Macro dangers

[Walter Bright]

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.