AST Macros?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-06-05 09:08, Don Clugston wrote:
> On 04/06/12 20:46, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-06-04 10:03, Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>>> AST macros were discussed informally on the day after the conference,
>>> and it quickly became clear that the proposed ones were nowhere near
>>> powerful enough. Since that time nobody has come up with another
>>> proposal, as far as I know.
>>
>> I think others have suggested doing something similar like Nemerle,
>> Scala or Nimrod.
>>
>
> Yes but only in very vague terms -- not in any more words than that.
> When I look at the Nimrod docs, it basically seems to be nothing more
> than "expose the compiler internal data structures". Which is extremely
> easy to do but causes a heap of problems in the long term.

Yes, no formal proposition has been made.

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/Jacob Carlborg