Offering Access to Parser

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-02-11 05:22, cy wrote:

> Well yes, that's my point. AST macros don't need any new special syntax
> or language support, just access to the compiler's syntax parser. Then
> you can use normal mixins to get the code you want.

Well, language support _is_ required. Perhaps not new syntax though.

In my macro DIP [1] basically the only difference is that one use the 
"macro" keyword when declaring a function, then "mixin" is not necessary 
on the call site. Plus parsing the input is not necessary, that's 
handled automatically. That's all, the rest is just AST manipulation 
using CTFE.

[1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP50

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/Jacob Carlborg