New syntax for string mixins

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:ie8dpq$kfg$2 at digitalmars.com...
> 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
>

Though I'm a huge D/systems-language/native-compiled guy, Nemerle's macros 
and pattern matching are two things I'm very jealous of and have made it 
very tempting to put up with the CLR for certain things.