On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 14:01, <howardcs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure where you got this impression - commands run by go generate have
> only the OS environment. They are just ordinary commands, as might be run
> by any shell script, just the calls to them are integrated into the Go
> tooling.
>
> Tools that seem to access go syntax trees and the like? They are simply
> using the parser and AST tools made available by Go to parse go code, and
> that can be done at any time, not just during go generate.
>

Yup. How is that not metaprogramming though?

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