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All I can say is that there should be a variation of Greenspun's tenth rule:
Any sufficiently complicated programming language becomes an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Still, I want to have that C++.
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[0] - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070... the examples from the later parts of the paper show how great it would be to have something like that in C++.
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All I can say is that there should be a variation of Greenspun's tenth rule:
Any sufficiently complicated programming language becomes an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Still, I want to have that C++.
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[0] - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070... the examples from the later parts of the paper show how great it would be to have something like that in C++.