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What you're describing is a compiler, which is also not metaprogramming.
by ynniv 17y ago
What you're describing is a compiler, which is also not metaprogramming.
- tumult 17y agoIf a compiler is implemented in the language it compiles, and exposes compilation again to the program it compiles, then the implementation is metaprogrammable.
- ynniv 17y agoYour point? You said that someone should look to these systems as cases of "metaprogramming". Now you say that they are "metaprogrammable". You seem to have a very specific notion of metaprogramming, what exactly would you consider to be a prototypical use of it?