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It seems to me that syntactic sugar is the crutch that language designers throw to their users when they won't/can't give them macros. I think the idea behind
by jwhitlark 17y ago
It seems to me that syntactic sugar is the crutch that language designers throw to their users when they won't/can't give them macros. I think the idea behind the quote is not that it's bad in an absolute sense, just that it's a second best solution.
- eru 17y agoUnderstandable. I like Lisp [1], but I am also quite content with the way Haskell looks like. And Haskell has a lot of syntactic sugar. Lisp just enables you to grow your own sugar beets. [1] Actually I like Scheme. Common Lisp is ugly.