Re: [dylan] Simple Reader Macros for Dylan (Possible DEP?)

Dustin Voss <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.dylan.gwydion.devel
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Pretty cool. Especially as a way of generalizing things like regexp or multi-line strings.

A DEP sounds fine, but this change would probably impact macro expansion/compilation order, and that area has that other issue (https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/issues/112) that should probably get fixed before tackling further changes, lest we dig ourselves a deeper hole.

On Dec 24, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have been digging through the dfmc/reader code for a few things and noticed an extension that is implemented in there ...
> 
> I'd seen the discussion of this feature from 1999 here:
> 
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/info-dylan-archive-html-1999/msg00324.html
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/info-dylan-archive-html-1999/msg00327.html
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/info-dylan-archive-html-1999/msg00331.html
> (and replies to those posts)
> 
> I hadn't realized that it was actually implemented though. (See make-hash-literal in dfmc/reader/lexer.dylan...)
> 
> Is there any interest in having a DEP written to describe this?
> 
> It seems like a useful enough extension (and people seemed to agree back in 1999) ...
> 
>  - Bruce
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