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Comment by kccqzy

Maybe this is heretical among Haskell lovers, but my personal, rather undeveloped, feeling is that Haskell syntax is too complicated for macros. Sure, Haskell code feels natural to read, but in fact they had a lot of "superficial complexity"[1], i.e. the syntax supports many ways of expressing the same thing. This makes any sorts of introspection at compile-time troublesome. Compile-time code generation is less of a problem but still it makes the experience less pleasant.

[1]: Hudak P., Hughes J., Peyton Jones, S., Wadler P. (2007). A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class.

parent kccqzy 10 years ago

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