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Yeah I was pretty sure I've seen this in both Nim and Common Lisp, but don't compile-time macros in general allow for this? A comment even mentions source-text

by Jach 8y ago

Yeah I was pretty sure I've seen this in both Nim and Common Lisp, but don't compile-time macros in general allow for this? A comment even mentions source-text replacement with C functions. So it seems like the "jet" is just a type of macro that is formally specified to behave as a pure transformation...

derefr 8y ago
If macros are "GOTO", a jet is a "COMEFROM". A programmer knows they're calling a macro, and expects that code to change. A jet, meanwhile, affects code that was written without knowledge of the jet.
- coding123 8y ago
  It sounds like a aspect oriented programming.