Re: Procedural macros?

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Subject: Re: Procedural macros?
From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:45:02 -0500 (EST)
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FunO Dylan supports procedural macros, but I have not ever
used them.   Perhaps someone who has can comment.

"Robert Feldt" <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I saw the paragraph in DRM about procedural macros:
>
> "Some implementations and a future version of the Dylan language
> specification might allow macro expansions to be produced by compile-time
> computation using the full Dylan language and an object-oriented
> representation for programs. Such a "procedural macro" facility is not
> part of Dylan at this time."
>
> which is something I'm interested in. Has any work been done on that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Feldt
>

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Procedural macros?

From: Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>