[Haskell-cafe] lambda case (was Re: A big hurray for lambda-case (and all the other good stuff))

[MigMit]

Syntax extensibility is usually too powerful, it surely would be abused extensively, which would make developer's life a nightmare, unless there is only one developer and whole development takes no more than a couple of months.

On Dec 31, 2012, at 1:09 AM, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com> wrote:

> My 2 cents on the issue:
> 
> We should have a better forms of meta-programming to solve this sort of issue generally. With the power of first-class functions and laziness, we can get away with a lot of things without meta-programming, but case expression syntax is not first class, so cannot benefit from the flexibility proffered to the rest of the language.
> 
> tl;dr give me easily extensible syntax, rather than having to run to GHC devs every time I want a new or different flavor of sugar.
> 
> -- Dan Burton
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