Re: Deprecating RULES

On 10/17/12 2:31 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Then if you insist on comparing to a macro facility, as we're talking
> about dynamic code rewriting, maybe we need to compare RULEs to the lisp
> style macro facility, which is nothing like a pre-processor facility (in
> lisp, that's the reader, I think).

Except the vast majority of the audience likely have no idea what the 
'lisp macro system' is like or what this comparison implies..     Even 
though I dabbled in a little LISP almost 40 years ago, I don't remember 
anything about LISP macros, just Assembler and C macros :)

Any such comparison should be with something that is common knowledge, 
not something even more obscure than the primary subject matter.




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