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Lisp is Changing My C++

• deleted 18y ago
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• dazzawazza 18y ago
  Learning Python did the same thing for me. Infact I'd go as far as to say Python has made me a significantly better programmer.
• meredydd 18y ago
  Sometimes, the answer is no. Some boilerplate code (like exception catching) is an overhead that can not be avoided [...] I’m still looking for my “Lisp Enlightenment” with respect to macros That enlightenment is just this: "boilerplate code that cannot be avoided" is an oxymoron. If it's boilerplate, it's macro-able, and exception handling is no different. I don't know your code, so I can only suggest that you take another look at those boilerplate segments you think "cannot be avoided". Find even the smallest thing they have in common - whatever makes you call them "boilerplate". Now invent some fantasy syntax that would make that overlap go away. Now write the macro to make that syntax work. Rinse, repeat. Warning - Once you're used to thinking like this, it is my experience that returning to a language without metaprogramming will become considerably more painful...
  • scott_s 18y ago
    I think the author meant "some boilerplate code in C++ (like exception catching) is an overhead that can not be avoided."
    • meredydd 18y ago
      I think the author meant "some boilerplate code _in C++_" It's possible. But once you've acknowledged that boilerplate code is inevitable in one language but not the other, that was The Macro Enlightenment(tm) - you just had it.
      • scott_s 18y ago
        Maybe the first half. The second half would be how to write such code.