Just one comment about the above ... Mindy didn't really support macros and while d2c did, they were relatively broken. And I'm not really sure that there's an

Just one comment about the above ... Mindy didn't really support macros and while d2c did, they were relatively broken. And I'm not really sure that there's anyone left in the world that understands all of the details of the macro expander in Open Dylan. I do think that that chapter of the book made them relatively clear though ... but it might only seem that way to me since I already have a pretty good understanding of them. Edit: response to your edit: But we're interested in evolving the language. We're looking at adding an s-expression syntax. Hannes and I are both interested in extensions to the type system. We'd love to see some of our internal macro machinery that is available within the compiler more broadly available. It takes someone identifying something they'd like to do and championing it ... we'd welcome you (or others) to drop by #dylan on Freenode and chat with us.