On Saturday 13 August 2005 7:08 am, Lisa Parratt wrote: > Surely the nice, clean, solution to your problems is some sort of > Scheme like hygenic macro system? i'm sure that would be the most generic solution, and there was a little discussion about how could it be. as i recall, the biggest obstacle is that the compilation structures aren't very lua-friendly' making compile-time additions awkward. (unlike Scheme and other Lisps, where the interned program is just a list, like everything else) maybe it could be enlighting to see if Dylan has this kind of features? it has deep introspection, and made successfully the transition from a Lisp dialect to a more popular infix-operator procedural-like syntax. > That way you could define whatever extra syntax you like in it's own > package, and then include and activate it through a require for this specific request, i think it's not needed... (untested!!) function compose_r (f, ...) local given = arg return function (...) return f (unpack ( concat_lists (given, arg))) end end function compose_l (f, ...) local given = arg return function (...) return f (unpack ( concat_lists (arg, given))) end end -- Javier
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