[erlang-questions] beta release of merl - metaprogramming in Erlang

[Anthony Ramine]

It also have some caveats, if we really want to make use of it:

- I don’t have an idea of an obvious syntax for extracting the attributes
- I need multiple escape operators to do stuff like case E of ``Clauses end
- I need to abuse yecc to be able to do <|form| SomeForm |>

Glad you find it interesting though!

-- 
Anthony Ramine

Le 4 févr. 2014 à 15:36, Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED> a écrit :

> On 2014-02-04 15:17 , Anthony Ramine wrote:
>> Shameless plug, but kinda related, you might appreciate this Richard.
>> 
>> 	https://github.com/nox/otp/commit/b734fc412ad9ea8d1b5d810127c058936955461e
>> 
>> Implemented this a few years ago, it’s not finished but I may work again on it if people like it or want to see it finished.
>> 
>> Merl looks fun but I really really hate epp-like macros and code in strings, I guess it does work in the end though.
>> 
> 
> Looks nice. I had long considered doing something Meta-ML-like for Erlang, but wanted to start with something simple that didn't need a modified parser (not even macros or transforms at the simplest level), and then work my way up. The advantage is that it works today, without forking OTP or pushing an EEP to add metasyntax to R18. :-)
> 
> Note for anyone trying Merl: it doesn't work with R16B03 due to the broken syntax tools in that release. Use R16B03-1 instead.
> 
>   /Richard
>