feature request: __ARGS__ for logging (cf __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNC___)

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/06/2013 03:57 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 02/06/2013 03:23 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-02-06 14:05, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, but it is not clear yet what macro closures are exactly (Probably
>>> it would make sense to inject the closed over declarations at the call
>>> site, without adding them to the scope.)
>>
>> It's not clear? We want to be able have a macro referring to utility
>> functions and these should be bind at the macro site and not call site.
>>
>
> Of course. What I mean by macro closure is the following:
>
> Ast foo(){
>      int x = 0;    // a 'closed over' variable
>      return <[x]>; // escaping reference
> }
>
> macro counter(){ return $(foo())++; }

Actually

macro counter(){ return <[$(foo())++]>; }