Function name as text

[Bill Baxter]

Craig Black wrote:
> OK I think it's possible with mixins but the syntax is ugly.  It would be
> 
> Event event = mixin(dispatch("&foo.bar"));
> 
> Which leads me to an idea that has probably been proposed before.  It would 
> be nice if I could shorten this to simply
> 
> Event event = dispatch(&foo.bar);
> 
> There may be reasons why this syntax would be difficult to achieve, but I 
> think it would be worthwhile if we could.
> 
> Thoughts?

My understanding is that that is exactly what macros are going to do. 
Define dispatch as a macro, then its arguments get passed as strings.  I 
think the main issue is just working out the grammar and all the various 
compiler bits to make it work.

--bb