Making Macros in CoffeeScript

http://blog.davidpadbury.com/2010/12/09/making-macros-in-coffeescript/

by franze • 15 years ago

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blog.davidpadbury.com

dramaticus3• 15 years ago

Posted on December 9, 2010 and only one of two articles on the blog about Coffeescript

and a multi dupe

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698089 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042447

Was anyone else was inspired to take this further ?

davidpadbury• 15 years ago

Yeah - this has been posted way too many times. There was some work on significantly modifying the CoffeeScript compiler to add static metaprogramming (macros+more) but I don't think it's gone anywhere recently - https://github.com/fab13n/parsec-coffee-script.

The real point of the article was to draw attention to how extensible the CoffeeScript compiler can be. Jeremy talks about this when presenting the language and it's recently been used in a couple interesting ways like contracts.coffee (http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/).

Making Macros in CoffeeScript

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