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

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.

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.

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

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

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.