Why no macro facility?

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From: Dave Nelson
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 1988 18:00

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Could someone tell me why prolog has no built-in macro facility?
Even the industrial strength, full-featured prolog I am currently
evaluating doesn't have such a thing.

This sort of source-to-source transformation of files, *which can then
be compiled*, is the LISP feature I miss the most (so far :-).

Oh, and another thing...would it be so hard to put in a compile(pred, arity)
to take a currently interpreted predicate and compile it?  All the
compile(frob) directives interpret frob as a filename.

daven (Dave Nelson)


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