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[John Cowan]

David Rush scripsit:

> > # The language developed by working group 1 must include support for
> > # macros and modules/libraries in a way that is appropriate for the
> > # language's small size.
> 
> Ah. Well the thing is that hygiene-breaking macro modularity looks (to
> me at least) like it requires some way of staging the macro
> evaluations - which almost certainly means something that looks a lot
> like a module system. 

I don't read that as requiring low-level or unhygienic macros.  (As foof
points out, some macro systems are both high-level and unhygienic, like
C #defines.)

> When I look at how the Haskell community has just zipped past Scheme,
> I really have to wonder what we've been doing wrong.

All the world's Haskell programmers will still fit in a 747, and if it
crashed, nobody would notice.

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