Will macros just be syntactic sugar?

[Don Clugston]

Davidl wrote:
> macro macroname(Token... tokens)
> {
>      static if (tokens[0].ID != Token.LParen)
>     pragma(error, `( expected`);
:
>      alias token[1] arg0;
>      alias token[5] arg1;
>      alias token[7] arg2;
>      alias token[9] arg3;
>      arg0[arg1] = arg2 + arg3;
> }
> 
> caller could call the macro with :
> 
> macroname(arg0)[arg1] := arg2 + arg3;

I don't think that's much nicer than
mixin(macroname("arg0[arg1]:= arg2+ arg3"));

which works in DMD 1.012. The static if/Token properties can be done via 
a CTFE library. If structs were allowed in CTFE functions, the code 
wouldn't even be too ugly.