Re: "Macro" expansion

On 28/5/01 22:14, Will Partain wrote:

>Hmm... sounds generally good.  I'd probably rip out the
>backwards compat stuff at this early stage.

OK. I've checked in what I have for the moment for people to try and 
comment on. I'll rip out the hack tonight hopefully. Though I'm still not 
sure what to replace it with.

>One thing I should pipe up and say: these @<blah>@ "macros"
>were initially intended to be a *tiny* shorthand language
>just for the most common cases.  For others, you could
>write, e.g.:
>
>   <param> !arbitrary-python-expr-here </param>
>
>But maybe what you've got now makes a bit more sense in the
>ARK2 world of strings/tables/lists/code/nothing-else.

Oops ;-)  Perhaps the 'indexed' stuff should be replaced with the 
appropriate '!' code then?

>Yeah, probably :-(  Actually, my bigger concern is to get
>this in the documentation.  If you're so inclined, in
>ARK/webpages/, either ark-conflang.htma (syntax?) or
>field-invoke.htma (semantics?), just bung something in.

OK. Documentation to follow tonight as well. Unless Matt feels the 
burning desire to do it for me today ;-)

(Gotta go do my paid work now...)

:-j


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