From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T10:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: Lisp macros

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On 9/27/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
>
> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > Whoops, this belongs on ruby-talk... Sorry.
>
> I trust the accidental exposure to Lisp wasn't too traumatizing.
>
> Anyway, there have been sporadic discussions both here and on ruby-core
> about adding true Lisp-style macros to Ruby. My understanding is that
> while Ruby can do assorted flips and twists, it cannot do quite the same
> sort of things as found in Lisp (and I hope a true Lisper here can
> elaborate on this); I also believe that Matz is less than enamored with
> idea of adding this to Ruby (and I hope a true Matz can elaborate on
> this, too).


Almost here with this http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree/ Just need to
able able to modify it and feed it back.

This http://boo.codehaus.org/Syntactic+Macros is also interesting reading.


Lyndon

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