Re: stupid macro question

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: stupid macro question
From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:30:03 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Road Runner
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John Whittaker wrote in message ...
>While macros seem to be the topic of the week,  I thought I'd try to get my
>silly macro question answered by the experts.
>
>My question is: Can you insert totally non-Dylan stuff as text inside a
>macro?  In other words,  the text within the brackets after the test-code =
>...  would be actual C++ code.  I don't think that Dylan allows you to
match
>on totally non-Dylan text, but I thought I'd ask.  If Dylan could match on
>this, I would then like to put quotes around it (i.e., make it a string)
and
>store it into some slot in the hypothetical test class.  With all the other
>talk about the ?:* pattern, it seemed at least worth asking.


There is no Dylan macro equivalent of "CDATA", if that's what
you're asking.  Stuff on both the left- and right-hand side of patterns
has to be valid Dylan fragments, where the grammar of these
fragments is defined in the Macros spec.

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stupid macro question

From: "John Whittaker" <johncwhi@earthlink.net>