More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 21:16:55 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 05/13/2014 09:07 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2014-05-13 15:56, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>>> Judging by 
>>> http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.6/tutorial-macros.html
>>> those are not full-blown AST macros like ones you have been 
>>> proposing,
>>> more like hygienic version of C macros.
>>
>> Hmm, I haven't looked at Rust macros that much.
>>
>
> Again, the following is an example of Rust macros in action. A 
> bf program is compiled to Rust code at compile time.
>
> https://github.com/huonw/brainfuck_macro/blob/master/lib.rs
>
> Compile-time computations create an AST which is then spliced. 
> Seems full-blown enough to me and not at all like C macros.

Comments look promising but unfortunately I can't understand a 
single line of actual code :) Mine rust-fu is too weak.