Programmable Syntax Macros

@inproceedings{citeulike:2108, abstract = {Lisp has shown that a programmable syntax macro system acts as an adjunct to the compiler that gives the programmer important and powerful abstraction facilities not provided by the language. Unlike simple token substitution macros, such as are provided by CPP \#the C preprocessor\#, syntax macros operate on Abstract Syntax Trees \#ASTs\#. Programmable syntax macro systems have not yet been developed for syntactically rich languages such as C because rich concrete syntax requires the manual...}, author = {Weise, Daniel and Crew, Roger F. }, booktitle = {SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation}, citeulike-article-id = {2108}, keywords = {macros}, pages = {156--165}, posted-at = {2004-12-07 03:29:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Programmable Syntax Macros}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/weise93programmable.html}, year = {1993} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2108 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2108 TI - Programmable Syntax Macros T2 - SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation SP - 156 EP - 165 N2 - Lisp has shown that a programmable syntax macro system acts as an adjunct to the compiler that gives the programmer important and powerful abstraction facilities not provided by the language. Unlike simple token substitution macros, such as are provided by CPP #the C preprocessor#, syntax macros operate on Abstract Syntax Trees #ASTs#. Programmable syntax macro systems have not yet been developed for syntactically rich languages such as C because rich concrete syntax requires the manual... KW - macros AU - Weise, Daniel AU - Crew, Roger PY - 1993/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/weise93programmable.html ER -