What are AST Macros?

[Philippe Sigaud]

Don wrote:

>
> Part of what happened was that at the conference, I showed that the
> functionality of string mixins was a superset of what was planned for AST
> macros. Since that time, there has not been any kind of proposal, or even a
> concept. So it's a bit meaningless to talk about "AST macros" right now as
> if they were a planned-but-not-yet-implemented feature.
>

That's interesting. Do you have a link or any text I could read on that?
String mixins sure are powerful, but I can't get ird of a feeling of
'cheating' when using them. Maybe with some kind of string interpolation
they could be made more palatable to some?


Philippe
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