DMD 1.011 release

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Apr 11 10:09:48 PDT 2007


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Manfred Nowak" <svv1999 at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:eviatg$7r5$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Walter Bright wrote
>>
>>> some enhancements.
>> I believe that "macro" is the wrong wording for the intended semantics
>> of manipulating ASTs.
>>
>> D supporters might get into serious argumentative troubles when
>> negating the usefullness of C macros on one side and OTOH have to hail
>> AST manipulators which irritatingly have the same name: "macro".
> 
> ..but then you have Lisp programmers who will feel right at home calling it 
> 'macro,' which is, I guess, the motivation for calling them as such.

Yes, that is the motivation, and my impression from talking with people 
about it is it won't be a problem. I intend to refer to them as "AST 
macros", rather than C's "text macros".



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