Procedural Macros for Java

27Oct00

Bachrach and Playford

CodeQuote

•Like Lisp’s quasiquote (QQ)

•WYSIWYG / concrete representation of code within #{}’s

–#{ if (isOn()) turnOff(); }

•Evaluation of codeQuote yields skeleton form representation of code

•Quoting is turned off with ? (like QQ’s comma)

–Variables: ?x

–Expressions: ?(f(x))

•


	System translates #{ } into code that generates Fragments