ugly and/or useless features in the language.

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Sunday, 23 May 2021 at 08:35:31 UTC, Tony wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 May 2021 at 21:15:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
> wrote:
> Why is metaprogramming added features better than the same 
> features added in the language? One is standard between 
> entities, the other is not.

There are many reasons, one important one is consistency and 
being able to prove that the type system is sound/reasonable.

Syntactic sugar is ok though, so adding syntax does not create 
problems as long as what it expands to can be expressed 
constuctively using exising language constructs.