From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Metaprogramming
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:03:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864l1d8jqq.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvef0hd7db.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This is a query from over half a decade ago:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/q/22224045
>
> That's not exactly about meta-programming [...]
"Metaprogramming is a programming technique in
which computer programs have the ability to
treat other programs as their data. It means
that a program can be designed to read,
generate, analyze or transform other programs,
and even modify itself while running." [1]
One should probably have a good, or at least
explicit reason to do any of that, since
otherwise it'll just make things complicated
where they don't have to be. However if one
finds such a use case and pulls it off, that's
programming at the next level, no doubt.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-15 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-15 3:13 Metaprogramming Shyam Nath
2019-09-15 7:32 ` Metaprogramming Teemu Likonen
2019-09-15 9:39 ` Metaprogramming Shyam Nath
2019-09-15 13:22 ` Metaprogramming Stefan Monnier
2019-09-15 14:36 ` Metaprogramming Stefan Monnier
2019-09-15 19:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
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