Re: RFC 25 (v1) Multiway comparisons

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:52:24PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> Why would we ever use source filters when we're going to have a
> beautiful extend-syntax macro system.

Because source filters *are* that macro system.  Why would we invent
yet another language within a language when we can use a language we
already know--Perl.  We just need to make source filters part of the
language rather than a module (Perl 5 is already almost there).

-Scott
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