On Nov 4, 2008, at 18:18, Paul Stadig wrote:
> Is it possible to create "generic" macros? I mean macros are basically
> a way to extend the compiler, right? Wouldn't it be useful to be able
> to dispatch a macro based on the type hint of its parameters (or some
> other criteria)?
A macro gets its arguments unevaluated (necessarily, being called at
compile time). I don't see how it could know their types. Given
something like
(max a b)
how could you figure out the types of the values that will be bound
to a and b when the macro-generated code is executed?
Konrad.
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