[OT] Re: DIP 50 - AST macros

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 17:13:11 UTC, Chris 
Nicholson-Sauls wrote:

> Is this in any way better than the basic Ruby
>
>   where( name: 'John', address: 'Main street' )
>
> ?  Or was it just something quick and contrived to show the 
> behavior, and not the utility, of the plugin?  Just curious.

It was mostly to show what happens when the you have limited 
operator overloading.

It has it advantages over the hash-syntax. You can do much more, 
not equal, less then, greater then, like and so on.

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/Jacob Carlborg