DIP 50 - AST macros

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/11/13 9:16 PM, Rob T wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 02:37:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 11/10/13 11:46 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2013-11-11 02:46, bearophile wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's also useful to take a look at what F# is doing:
>>>> http://tomasp.net/blog/2013/computation-zoo-padl/index.html
>>>
>>> I'll do that. I've been looking at several languages, mainly Scala. But
>>> I have not looked at F#.
>>
>> There is significant regret about the way macros are defined in Scala.
>> Probably not an example to follow.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Knowing what went wrong is important so as not to repeat past mistakes,
> is there more info somewhere to read on what went wrong?

Not yet. Martin mentioned to me in 2012 he doesn't think they took the 
right turns with defining macros. I don't know whether more information 
is available at the moment.

Andrei