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Re:Maintain It with Zig by kristoff_it on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:15PM (#28460132)
Not sure why people are downvoting. We all have our hidden agendas, mine is the destruction of all macros.
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Re:Maintain It with Zig by tialaramex on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:19PM (#28463757)
Surely if you ensure people can't write macros in your language they'll just wrap the entire language in a pre-processing layer to enable macros which seems obviously worse ?
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Re:Maintain It with Zig by IggleSniggle on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:17PM (#28465483)
Something something typescript
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Re:Maintain It with Zig by jeofken on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:15PM (#28462457)
What are compilers but advanced text macros?
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