[Grace-core] Collection naming

Andrew P. Black black at cs.pdx.edu
Wed Jul 2 21:34:25 PDT 2014


On 30 Jun 2014, at 19:41, Marco Servetto <marco.servetto at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Here is a principle: we should add language extensions only when there is no good alternative.
> I still do not understand if sugaring is considered a language
> extention or not in your minds,

In my mind, if it needs to be implemented in the compiler, it’s a language extension.  If it can be implemented as a library, or a dialect,  it’s not.  In fact, a good way to think about the language might be as a toolkit for implementing dialects.

	Andrew




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