@marcoarment
@monkeydom That’s the best form of Gödel’s law I’ve ever heard.

@marcoarment So you’re saying we shouldn’t use a regex to check if a given string is a valid regex?

@marcoarment sssh. You will awaken the lisp people!

@marcoarment I sort of feel this way about Package.swift files.

@marcoarment @monkeydom I learned XSLT and still depend on the few trnasformations I wrote 15 years ago. Converts XML from a system to a different format. I then do manual combining of XML files and use another XSLT to convert to HTML.

Every year I dread that an upgrade to the source of the data will mean updating my XSLT. It works wonders but nothing else made me want to smash my head into a wall as much.

@marcoarment @monkeydom it is "homoiconicity" that you don't like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity

these always do seem a little too clever to me, but I don't mind a macro here and there.