The better way is to provide an elagantly designed compiler invoking API, and then allow users to do various levels of metaprogramming.
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Level 0: reflections by teling compiler to generate runtime type representations Level 1: customizing tokenizing Level 2: AST manipulations, builtin gensym mechanisms, and program analysis available Level 3: accessing type info to achieve type-directed codegen.
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for the record, I built a language without metaprogramming for anyone - me or thee - and THAT was a huge mistake
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