DIP 50 - AST macros

[SomeDude]

On Sunday, 17 November 2013 at 10:41:46 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> We already have templates and operator overloading. Perhaps we 
> should remove those, we don't want to take the chance of people 
> abusing them.
>
D templates have been designed with the past experience of C++ 
templates in mind, so the mistakes have been avoided. With 
macros, we don't have much experience; Lisp macros can't count as 
the language is too different.

>> Basically, people want to change the language, but without 
>> having to
>> discuss their own extensions in the newsgroups. It's sometimes 
>> handy,
>> but you'll end up with crappy features all over the place.
>
> No, people want a general solution that doesn't require the 
> language to be extended each time they come up with a useful 
> feature.

Sorry but I tend to value the feedback of people who have already 
put some serious effort in expression templates and mixins like 
Don.