[mercury-users] lisp macros

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-May-2002, Michael Day <mikeday at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> However the point about adding source to source transformations or
> optimisations into the compiler could be solved by the compiler exposing
> an internal API and offering the ability to dynamically load modules
> similarly to Apache.

The difficult part of doing that is defining a *stable* API
that is powerful enough to express the kinds of things that
people want to use this facility for.

There's not much point in the compiler exposing its internal APIs
to the world if they undergo major change with every release.

-- 
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The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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