Re: macros and is parsed

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:05:50PM -0400, Brent Dax wrote: : Larry Wall: : > argument. In fact, ??:: could be implemented as an infix:?? macro : > that does a special parse looking for a subsequent :: token. : : ...which gives us another built-in's implementation. : : macro infix:?? ($cond,

Re: macros and is parsed

2003-08-04 Thread Brent Dax
Larry Wall: > argument. In fact, ??:: could be implemented as an infix:?? macro > that does a special parse looking for a subsequent :: token. ...which gives us another built-in's implementation. macro infix:?? ($cond, $expr1, $expr2) is parsed(/:w () <'::'> ()/) { return {

Re: macros and is parsed

2003-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:40:26AM -0700, Austin Hastings wrote: : You're both right. Well, actually, I think Damian misspoke slightly. I only aim for 95% accuracy in the Apocalypses (or I'd never get them done). So I think it's pretty spectacular if Damian gets to 99.44% accuracy in the Exegese

Re: macros and is parsed

2003-08-02 Thread Austin Hastings
--- "Abhijit A. Mahabal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In E6 Damien writes about macros: > > "As soon as it has parsed that subroutine call (including its > argument > list) it will detect that the subroutine &request is actually a > macro, so > it will immidiately call &request with the specified

macros and is parsed

2003-08-02 Thread Abhijit A. Mahabal
In E6 Damien writes about macros: "As soon as it has parsed that subroutine call (including its argument list) it will detect that the subroutine &request is actually a macro, so it will immidiately call &request with the specified arguments". If macroness is found *after* parsing the arguments,