There's a lot of prior work on macros, including macros for Java and other non-S-expression based languages-- JSE isn't the only candidate for study.
As I've said, macros aren't on the agenda for this go 'round. Dave P T Withington wrote: > On 2008-09-03, at 02:24EDT, Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote: > >> However, ES-Harmony shouldn't introduce anything either not tested in >> other languages or extensively researched in academia. I would place >> hygienic macros for procedural languages in that category. Maybe we >> ought to look in existing research papers for some inspiration: >> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=hygienic+macro+procedural&btnG=Search >> <http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=hygienic+macro+procedural&btnG=Search >> > > [The Java syntactic > extender](http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=504282.504285 > ) is the descendant of Lisp macros, adapted to Algol-like syntax via > Dylan, and probably the best candidate for study, IMO. > _______________________________________________ > Es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
