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in reply to Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl?
in thread A Macro System for Perl?

None of these nice things (straight text transform, AST manipulation, adding tokens to the parser) add up to a full macro system. They will be useful tools in building a macro system but without a design we just won't get there. That's what this meditation is about, and frankly I have to mark it a failure. I guess no one out there has any clearer ideas than I do about what a macro system for Perl should look like!

-sam