[Laszlo-dev] designing API which is LZX friendly and Javascript-friendly

[P T Withington]

On 28 Nov 2005, at 13:16, Jim Grandy wrote:

> Would it be going to far to propose a compile-time pattern-matching  
> transform stage? Kind of like hygienic macros in Scheme ([1] or  
> [2]) or Dylan [3], but perhaps more XSLT-arific. I imagine  
> something like that could be used in lots of other ways.
>
> [1] http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z- 
> H-7.html#%25_sec_4.3
> [2] http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/syntax.html#./syntax:h0
> [3] http://www.gwydiondylan.org/books/dpg/db_329.html

At Curl we used Playford and Bachrach's [Java Syntactic Extender] 
(http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=504285) as the basis for our  
macro system.