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Re:Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead by nawitus on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @01:43PM (#7025521)
It doesn't matter what the assembly looks like, if the definition of language is well-defined. With macros this is not true, different 'macro' definitions probaly work in a lot of different ways.

It's true that different compilers and interpreters sometimes do slightly different things, but atleast there's a standard which should improve over time. I don't see that happening with macros.

Not sure how modularity is achieved with macros either.

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Re:Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead by michaelmior on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @02:54PM (#7026069)
Macros CAN be well-defined, but I think the cherry picking of macros mentioned in the article leads to a "language" that is ill-defined vs picking up CoffeeScript or LiveScript. The idea of implementing ES6 via macros is pretty attractive though.
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Re:Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead by windsurfer on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @02:48PM (#7026027)
Why can't macros be well defined?
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Re:Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers, Make Macros Instead by nawitus on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @02:55PM (#7026077)
They can be, but rarely are.
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