On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think that it was on the r6rs list that during some macro-related >> flame I posted something about invoking a C compiler as part of a >> macro expansion, and someone replied that it sounded crazy. (I think >> that the argument was that macros should really only do simple >> `syntax-rules'-like things.) > > My mad-scientist advisor has actually done this. (I'm going to keep a tally > of the number of times I write that.) I used it once to make building an FFI > easier. What was it called... "Super C"? Not terribly portable, but very > cool.
https://github.com/jeapostrophe/superc I use it every year teaching PLAI so I can give little C examples. Jay -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
