Re: are dylan macros Turing-complete?

[Colin Walters <address@hidden>]

[ catching up on this newsgroup again ]

Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz> writes:

> I do exactly this in my Dylanlibs [1] libraries. See the dom-builder
> library. Code using it looks like:
> 
>   with-standard-http-result(stream)
>     let dom = 
>       with-dom-builder()
>         (html
>           (head
>             (title ["Test HTTP Server"])),
>           (body
>             (p ["Testing the Dylan HTTP Server."]),
>             (p ((a href: "/formtest1") ["Form test 1"])),
>             (p ((a href: "/formtest2") ["Form test 2"])),
>             (p ["Counter: "], [*counter* := *counter* + 1])))
>       end;
>     print-html(dom, stream);

That is very, very cool!

The next time I have to do some dynamic web stuff I am definitely
going to look into using your library.