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digitalmars.D - Macro system in D

↑ ↓ ← → Yigal Chripun <yigal100 gmail.com> writes:
Here's an interesting article (PDF) discussing the Nemerle Macro system:
http://nemerle.org/metaprogramming.pdf

Could D adopt a similar design? What do you think?

--Yigal
May 07 2008
↑ ↓ ← → Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:
Yigal Chripun Wrote:


 Here's an interesting article (PDF) discussing the Nemerle Macro system:
 http://nemerle.org/metaprogramming.pdf
 
 Could D adopt a similar design? What do you think?
 
 --Yigal



D is not Nemerle.  D does not use macros.  D does not have syntax tree
reflection, let alone built into the language.

D most probably will not adopt a similar design.
May 07 2008
↑ ↓ ← → Yigal Chripun <yigal100 gmail.com> writes:
Dan wrote:

 Yigal Chripun Wrote:
 

 Here's an interesting article (PDF) discussing the Nemerle Macro system:
 http://nemerle.org/metaprogramming.pdf

 Could D adopt a similar design? What do you think?

 --Yigal



 D is not Nemerle.  D does not use macros.  D does not have syntax tree
reflection, let alone built into the language.
 
 D most probably will not adopt a similar design.



in the last D conference Walter did mention AST Macros. It probably just
got postponed because of the const design. I hope D does get such a
feature since it's a very powerful concept.
May 07 2008
↑ ↓ ← → Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:
Yigal Chripun wrote:

 Here's an interesting article (PDF) discussing the Nemerle Macro system:
 http://nemerle.org/metaprogramming.pdf
 
 Could D adopt a similar design? What do you think?
 
 --Yigal



D was getting macros (though not exactly the same as Nemerle's). In 
fact, there's even a macro.c in the DMD source. But I'm not sure if 
they've been dropped by the wayside; Walter hasn't mentioned them since 
the conference last year.
May 07 2008
↑ ↓ ← → Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Robert Fraser wrote:

 Yigal Chripun wrote:

 Here's an interesting article (PDF) discussing the Nemerle Macro system:
 http://nemerle.org/metaprogramming.pdf

 Could D adopt a similar design? What do you think?

 --Yigal



 D was getting macros (though not exactly the same as Nemerle's). In 
 fact, there's even a macro.c in the DMD source. But I'm not sure if 
 they've been dropped by the wayside; Walter hasn't mentioned them since 
 the conference last year.



macro.c in the DMD sources is about DDOC macros.

--bb
May 07 2008
↑ ↓ ← → Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight gmail.com> writes:
Bill Baxter wrote:

 Robert Fraser wrote:

 Yigal Chripun wrote:

 Here's an interesting article (PDF) discussing the Nemerle Macro system:
 http://nemerle.org/metaprogramming.pdf

 Could D adopt a similar design? What do you think?

 --Yigal



 D was getting macros (though not exactly the same as Nemerle's). In 
 fact, there's even a macro.c in the DMD source. But I'm not sure if 
 they've been dropped by the wayside; Walter hasn't mentioned them 
 since the conference last year.



 macro.c in the DMD sources is about DDOC macros.
 
 --bb



Oops, my bad
May 07 2008