DIP 50 - AST macros

[Shammah Chancellor]

On 2013-11-11 03:04:34 +0000, Shammah Chancellor said:

> On 2013-11-10 21:20:30 +0000, Jacob Carlborg said:
> 
>> I've been thinking quite long of how AST macros could look like in D. 
>> I've been posting my vision of AST macros here in the newsgroup a 
>> couple of times already. I've now been asked to create a DIP out of it, 
>> so here it is:
>> 
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP50
> 
> Not a huge fan of the syntax, but I think it's a step in the right 
> direction away from string mixins.
> 
> R/
> Shammah

I think this would gain a lot more traction if someone wrote an 
std.expressions which produced workable code from a AST.   At that 
point, it's just for the D-frontend to parse code into said 
std.expressions.

The .NET expressions framework might servce as some insperation.

R/
Shammah