From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-08-04T13:45:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Macros in Ruby

Jesse Jones wrote:
> percent-case
>    0.75 case
>       normal_hit
>    end
> 
>    0.20 case
>       critical_hit
>    end
> 
>    otherwise
>       kill_foe
>    end
> end

I spent about 10 minutes coding this in Ruby (and it turned out to be 
very similar to Joel VanderWerf's version that he posted).  I'm curious 
what a macro version would be like.  What would the implementation of 
percent_case look like in Lisp or Dylan macros?

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