Making Macros in CoffeeScript

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Post by franze » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 7:17 AM UTC

Making Macros in CoffeeScript
blog.davidpadbury.com

Re: Making Macros in CoffeeScript

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Post by dramaticus3 » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 11:11 AM UTC

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 ?

Re: Making Macros in CoffeeScript

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Post by davidpadbury » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 11:25 PM UTC

dramaticus3 wrote: post #2

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 ?

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/).