From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-06-04T02:52:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you do Lisp-like macros in Ruby?

>>> sender: "Pat Maddox" date: "Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:52:20PM +0900" <<<EOQ
> I've never used lisp before until ~2am last night...and while working
> on the very simple unit testing framework in Practical Common Lisp [1]
> I came up with this macro:
> 
> (defun report-result (result form)
> (format t "~:[FAIL~;pass~] ... ~a~%" result form))
> 
> (defmacro test (test-form)
> (let ((result (gensym)))
>   `(let ((,result ,test-form))
>      (report-result ,result ',test-form)
>      ,result)))
> [..]

Just in case you missed this great article, here it is:

    http://www.artima.com/rubycs/articles/patterns_sexp_dsls3.html

and among other things it talks exactly about this: S-Expressions.

Hope it helps,
Alex