Macros

[Rib Rdb]

I've finally checked in the first feature to take advantage of the new parser.  Now macros can use backticks just about anywhere, which means you can generate most ast without resorting to writing ruby code.  We should be able to use this to really clean up a lot of the current code base.  Here's an example of how to implement something like ruby's attr_accessor:

      import duby.lang.compiler.StringNode

      class Foo

        macro def attr_accessor(name_node, type)

          name = StringNode(name_node).literal

          quote do

            def `name`

              @`name`

            end

            def `"#{name}_set"`(`name`:`type`)

              @`name` = `name`

            end

          end

        end

        make_attr :foo, :int

      end

      x = Foo.new

      puts x.foo

      x.foo = 3

      puts x.foo

[Michal Hantl]

Looks awesome!

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