A little Py Vs C++

[Don Clugston]

On 02/11/12 09:07, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-01 23:51, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> What about all your feature requests? I think you've made more than
>> anyone, by a factor of 10 at least!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> As for Manu's request
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8108
>>
>> I've gone over with him why he needs it, and there's no other reasonable
>> way. He needs it for real code in a real application.
>
> This is quite interesting. Manu comes in from basically nowhere and
> fairly quickly manage to convince Walter to implement at least two
> feature requests, this one and the SIMD support. I'm not saying that
> they shouldn't have been implemented.

He just knows how to convince Walter.
(Hint: use real-world use cases. Arguments from theoretical computer 
science carry almost no weight with Walter).

 > Although I think something like
> AST macros could possible solve issue 8108 and a whole bunch of other
> features, a few already present in the language.

Yes, and they could cure cancer. "AST macros" can do anything, because 
they are completely undefined. Without even a vague proposal, it seems 
like a rather meaningless term.