New syntax for string mixins

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-12-14 13:05, Don wrote:
> Graham St Jack wrote:
>> On 14/12/10 20:33, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:30:46 +0200, Graham St Jack
>>> <Graham.StJack at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is of course the worry that it could get so easy that everyone
>>>> starts doing it, and we have (relatively) impenetrable code everywhere
>>>> instead of just deep in the bowels of framework libraries.
>>>
>>> TBH, I'm more excited by AST macros which I understood are planned for
>>> D3, as mentioned here:
>>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/dconf2007/WalterAndrei.pdf
>>> They seem to promise the power of mixins, but without the mess.
>>>
>>
>> I took a look at the pdf, but couldn't see how the AST macros could come
>> close to the kinds of things that are possible (but difficult) with
>> mixins.
>
> That fact was recognized at the conference, on the following day. As a
> result, AST macros were dropped from D2.

Do you have an example that would work with string mixins but not with 
AST macros?

> They need to roughly match string mixins in power. At this stage, there
> is no proposal for how they should work.

I think someone, Nick Sabalausky perhaps, suggested to have something 
like the hygiene macros in Nemerle: 
http://nemerle.org/wiki/index.php?title=Macros

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg