Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> This isn't hard to do in Haskell - it's just that you have to remember 
>> to do it! (And more subtly, do it at the correct moment.)
> 
> Yep. Of course, in LISP, you do this all the time. When you're good at 
> it, about 30% of your code winds up being code-generating macros.

Heh. Crazy language... I thought computer science experts concluded, 
like, 30 years ago that self-modifying code is actually an Extremely Bad 
Idea? (Originally of course everybody thought it was "cool"...)

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