Hi,
Martin C. Martin wrote:
> So if we could introduce the concept of a special kind of function,
> which is run at compile time, and which takes the (unevaluated) parse
> trees of its arguments, instead of the runtime values of them, we could
> probably have something equivalent to Lisp macros. A macro would be a
> lot like transforming an XML DOM into another DOM, except instead of XML
> it's a parse tree.
That reminds me of compile-time decorators. Imagine you could write something
like
@cython.memoize
def dostuff(a,b):
...
(special casing the 'cython' prefix here) and Cython would call memoize() with
the *parse tree* of dostuff() as parameter. That would obviously use the same
infrastructure as compiler plugins, but it would allow you to explicitly run
plugins on your code.
Stefan
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