From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-10-25T18:08:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23276] Re: Ruby macros

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:

> > Useful work includes the recent RubyInRuby parser and Robert Feldt's Ruth
> > wrapping of the parse nodes in Ruby.  If anyone is seriously interested in
> > Ruby metaprogramming (or more specifically, in the terminology of my
> > little research group, Explicit Programming in Ruby), let me know, as I
> > may have some time in the next few months to put some work into this.
> >
> Will it work as a preprocessor or dynamically? ELIDE seems to be a
> preprocessor. Looks interesting though, its on the checkout list!

A preprocessor wouldn't make sense for Ruby; it would definitely want to
be dynamic.  For Java, unfortunately, it was the only realistic choice...

avi