What are AST Macros?

[pillsy]

== Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article

> Philippe Sigaud wrote:
[...]
> > 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?

> There's little doubt that it's the part of the language which needs the
> most attention in the long term. But the way forward is not at all
> obvious. So it's been deferred.

I'm not clear on how one is supposed to go about making the equivalent of hygienic macros using just
string mixins and CTFE.

Cheers,
Pillsy