Re: are dylan macros Turing-complete?

[Colin Walters <address@hidden>]

Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org> writes:

> That's not part of the Dylan spec, but you've got to generate your
> parse tree *somewhere*.  In many compilers you'd find almost exactly
> the same thing as a parse rule in a yacc file.  In Dylan, the parser
> and macro expansion interact too much to do that.

Ok, I understand that.  I just wanted to make sure that it was in fact
not part of the standard; this is a large conceptual difference
between Lisp macros and Dylan macros.