Procedural Macros for Java

27Oct00

Bachrach and Playford

Macro Motivation

•“From now on, a main goal in designing a language should be to plan for growth.”

–Guy Steele, “Growing a Language”, OOPSLA-98, invited talk

•Power of abstraction where functional abstraction won’t suffice, affording:

–Clarity

–Concision

–Implementation hiding

•People are lazy

–do the right thing

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	Also referred to in brabrand and schwartzbach paper
	Get language out and evolve it -- big part of success of Lisp was macro system which allowed it to live on through OO and Logic languages