Let's say I wanted to define an alternative syntax for some constructs like, for example, "debut; ... ; fin" as an alternative syntax for "begin; ... ; end" blocks or "<-" as an alternative form for the assignment "=". The first one would be easy to do with CPP and the second one with a tool like perl or sed. Could such substitutions also be done with a Julia macro that would act on the content of an entire file so that the code containing the alternative syntax would first be parsed and each occurence of "<-" would be replaced with an "=" and "debut; ... ; fin" blocks woulld be replaced with "begin; ... ; end" blocks?
Another related question is could a Julia macro be written to mimic object oriented call syntax so that one could write. "a->f(b)" or "a.f(b)" as an alternative for "f(a, b) "? I apologize in advance for the triviality of my question. I have less than a week of Julia experience.
