Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message > news:iednio$2vj...@digitalmars.com... >> >> I can't quite visualize how the final code will look like and as you say >> it's hard without a formal definition of AST macros. But I think somehow >> it would be possible, I mean instead of combining strings one combine >> expressions/syntax. But I don't know if it would be possible to combine >> incomplete expressions. >> > > One parallel that may or may not be applicable, but might be worth > considering, is dynamically building XHTML: Using a string-template system > is generally found to work very well, but building it via a DOM > (essentially an AST) is often considered a bit of a pain. I guess the > simplest take-away would be that string-based approaches may be easier get > working well. FWIW.
The newest vb.net has this feature, if I understand you correctly, via xml literals and linq expressions. It is quite convenient. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384460.aspx
