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Re: Some inquiries about Dylan tutorials and documentation
* Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
> Using an explicit table of expansions is IMO better style, since
> changing the variable names shouldn't affect the output of the
> program. Plus when your template language grows into a full
> programming language (and this always happens -- witness PHP), you'll
> be in a better position to write an interpreter with comprehensible
> behavior. :)
Of course the argument that Perl (and Lisp) people would make is that
when the template language grows you'll use the interpreter with
comprehensible behaviour that you already have to hand, thanks to EVAL.
Of course the perl people are wrong about the `comprehensible
behaviour' bit...
--tim
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