DIP 50 - AST macros

[Walter Bright]

On 11/13/2013 11:53 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-11-13 20:19, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The reflection ability is not something specific to an AST, it could be
>> added so that any expression node can be reflected. We already do much
>> of that with __traits.
>
> Yes, I been thinking of ways to expand __traits. When there's enough of __traits
> it's not much left during it into real AST macros. Just the part that passes the
> AST instead of the evaluated result of the arguments to a function.
>
> BTW, is it complicated to return a more structured values, like a struct or a
> class, than just plain values like strings?


No, but then you're face with the issue of where those structs are defined.