Folks,
As IMCC's in some flux and likely to get gutted and reworked, the question of macros has come up. (They cause some grammar issues) So, to make life easier:
Parrot's built-in PIR and PASM parsing modules do *not* need to do macros. (Though they do need to do .const things) Macro assemblers are for people, not compilers, and as such a separate tool (which can be a loadable compiler later if someone wants) is appropriate in this circumstance. So...
As long as there's a macro-assembler preprocessing program that understands the macro system and spits out macro-expanded PIR and PASM, the macro facilities built into IMCC can get tossed out. (Time for someone to write Macro-Parrot.pl, methinks)
There is already a nifty macro processor in imcc.l that probably should be salvaged and possibly moved to a separate lib.
-Melvin
