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Re: Students/techniques
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Students/techniques
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From: Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org>
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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 05:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Organization: The Internet Group Ltd
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In article <8hmpoi$15n$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, ejr@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU
(Edward Jason Riedy) wrote:
> I know more of Scheme macros than of Dylan macros, so this may
> be trivial: Can the Dylan macro system access any type
> information? In other words, can a macro expand different ways
> depending on how much type information is known during compilation?
No, but it can expand into a generic function call which can be inlined
if the types are known at compile time, and go to a generic
implementation if not.
-- Bruce
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