Paul Graham is not a complete idiot, and you are not disproving his statement "hard to implement properly in a language without turning it into a dialect of Lisp".
If you have to parse anything, it's not a Lisp-like macro, which is always an object arising from a production in the language.
Parsing can be hard, so he is right there too. If we take out some subset of Rust that has a significant syntax, and implement it in macros, that sounds like being up to the elbows in parsing.
If you have to parse anything, it's not a Lisp-like macro, which is always an object arising from a production in the language.
Parsing can be hard, so he is right there too. If we take out some subset of Rust that has a significant syntax, and implement it in macros, that sounds like being up to the elbows in parsing.