Weird Language Features

[Hannah Schroeter]

Hello!

[F'up]

In article <96q137$q3d$1 at nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>,
Eric Clayberg <clayberg at instantiations.com> wrote:
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[syntax changes through e.g. preprocessing]

>Smalltalk can also do the above very easily. Everything is Smalltalk is an
>object - including the parser, the compiler, the compiled methods and the
>method source. Setting up a pre-processor or modifying the actual parser is
>very easy to do. Since all of Smalltalk's control structures are built in
>Smalltalk itself, you can easily alias any function name or operator to
>another. Enhancing the "syntax" and adding your own control structures is
>also trivial.

Partly yes, but only partly. Access to parser/compiler innards isn't
standardized in any way, much less than Common Lisp's readtable and
macro facilities.

Of course, when it just comes to method names (selectors), it's
easy to modify/extend the standard classes.

>[...]

Kind regards,

Hannah.