The "no gc" crowd

[Timon Gehr]

On 10/09/2013 05:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/8/13 4:22 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> And we already have a forest of attributes on otherwise ordinary
>> functions.
>
> It's the cost of expressiveness. Exercising deduction wherever possible
> is the cure.
>
> Andrei
>

The cost of expressiveness certainly is not tedious syntax. What he 
outlines is a cost of lacking expressiveness. (Eg. it is impossible to 
abstract over lists of built-in attributes.)