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[Alaric B. Snell]> > Drifting off topic, I once designed a mechanism for avoiding having to run > code generators which was based around a Cunning Trick to allow a language to > be its own macro language, with willy-nilly sharing of contexts between > compile time and run time (which is useful because you can define a function > in a library then use it both at compile time and run time)... which lets you > create 'macros' that perform arbitrary 'compilation' to generate the actual > code the compiler compiles. > Sounds like FORTH. Cheers, Tom P
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