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Article #3455Re: Why no macro facility?
From: Tim Finin
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1988 13:43
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1988 13:43
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In article <9671@lll-winken.llnl.gov>, daven@lll-crg (Dave Nelson) writes:
>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 :-).
>...
The various Prolog systems developed by ZYX, including the one
developed for and marketed by HP, do have macro facilities.
Tim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!finin@antares From: finin@antares (Tim Finin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Why no macro facility? Summary: ZYX Prolog has Macros Keywords: macro Message-ID: <6879@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 8 Jul 88 13:43:33 GMT References: <9671@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Sender: news@PRC.Unisys.COM Reply-To: finin@prc.unisys.com Organization: Unisys - Paoli Research Center Paoli, PA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: daven@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Dave Nelson)