On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:26, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> As with any extension, an important question with views is whether
> they should be in the language, as in F#, or supported by the
> preprocessor as you did. After all, pattern-matching in Scheme is
> entirely based on macros, and people are perfectly happy with
> that. Why is it not the case in ML? Because, thanks to typing, we can
> check exhaustivity and overlapping, and use this information to detect
> error and optimize compilation. Unfortunately, views do not allow
> that...

Actually, I believe F# implements that in some form.

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