"Robert Jacques" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:op.vfjy3jlo26s...@sandford... > > Check out Walter's slides and/or talk from the D conference. > (http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=12555) > AST does stand for abstract syntax tree and they are much more like Lisp > macros as opposed to the C preprocessor.
Hmm, looks like the D version is much more template-mixin/C-macro-like than what I made it sound like in a previous branch of the thread. Basically like template mixins, but where the arguments are snippets of code, and overloads are resolved by pattern-matching the syntax of their arguments.
