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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help with macro
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:15:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213181519.GB3186@joshua.dnsalias.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y38ufbp5.fsf@gmail.com>

> 
> I think this would work:
> 
>   (define-syntax-rule (send self (method args ...))
>     (call-method self
>                  (symbol->string 'method)
>                  (list args ...)))
> 
> For example,
> 
>   (send date (set-dmy 1 1 2018))
> 
> will be expanded to
> 
>   (call-method date
>                (symbol->string 'set-dmy)
>                (list 1 1 2018))
> 
> which is equivalent to
> 
>   (call-method date "set-dmy" (list 1 1 2018))
> 

Thanks for your help!

-Mike Gran





      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-13  0:30 Need help with macro Mike Gran
2018-12-13  1:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-13 18:14   ` Mike Gran
2018-12-13  1:38 ` Alex Vong
2018-12-13 18:15   ` Mike Gran [this message]

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