Re: Complicated macro expansion question

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• Subject: Re: Complicated macro expansion question
• From: dauclair@hotmail.com (Douglas M. Auclair)
• Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:45:03 -0500 (EST)
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"Keith Playford" <keith.playford@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<000d01c174f4$7e27bbe0$ed8b403e@baloo>...
> There is a small defect in the code as written:
> 
>   Serious warning at play:6:
> 
>   This main rule pattern of the macro constraints-symbol-helper starts with constraints-helper, which does not match the macro name.
> 
>   play:5:     ------------------
>   play:6:   { constraints-helper(?parent:name, ?subclasses:*) } =>
>   play:7:     ------------------
> 
> says FunDev. If you fix this, though, it seems to work fine. Certainly
> there's no example of a non top-level definition in the generated code,
> so I think there must be a bug in d2c (even if it's just that d2c
> doesn't catch the above defect and a misleading error message is the
> result downstream).

Dear Keith,

Thank you.  I fixed the macro.  It works fine on Fun-Dev, but d2c
continues to issue errors ... I'll post to the Gwydion Dylan maillist
with this issue from here.

Thanks again.

Sincerely,
Doug Auclair

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