cl-splicing-macro

https://github.com/mabragor/cl-splicing-macro.git

git clone 'https://github.com/mabragor/cl-splicing-macro.git'

(ql:quickload :cl-splicing-macro)

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cl-splicing-macro

Features of this package are defmacro-enhance useable! (I.e. in DEFMACRO! from DEFMACRO-ENHANCE system both sampling expansion and splicing expansion can be used)

This package adds a possibility for macros to inject several forms (not just one) into surrounding macros's body.

CL-SPLICING-MACRO> (defmacro bar (&rest things)
                     "Just a toy macros, that expands into a PLUS"
                     `(+ ,@things))
CL-SPLICING-MACRO> (define-maybe-splicing-macro foo (a b &sample (1 2))
                     "Just a toy macro that will splice in the body of surrounding macro."
                     `(sprogn ,a ,b))
CL-SPLICING-MACRO> (macroexpand-1 '(bar 1 2 (foo 3 4) 5 6))
(+ 1 2 3 4 5 6) ; enjoy!

Sampling macroexpansion

Whether a given macros is splicing or not is decided on basis of whether its expansion contains SPROGN in CAR-position, or not. For this to work, we need a “characteristic expansion” of this macros, or a “testing expansion”.

New magic word &SAMPLE in macro-lambda-list is used to provide parameters of a macro, that result in generic-enough expansion (against which checks on the structure of the expansion can be made).

Sampling expansion for a given macros, if present, can be obtained with help of TESTING-EXPANSION macros.

CL-SPLICING-MACRO> (define-maybe-sampling-macro my-macro (a &sample (qwerty))
                     ...) ; define-my-clever-macro
CL-SPLICING-MACRO> (if (indeed-clever-expansion-p (testing-expansion my-macro))
                       do-something-useful)

By default, DEFINE-MAYBE-SAMPLING-MACRO is a wrapper around plain DEFMACRO, but DEFINE-/SAMPLING! macro-construction macros can be used to add sampling feature to your favorite DEFMACRO-like operator (e.g. DEFMACRO! from Let-Over-Lambda). lisp CL-SPLICING-MACRO> (define-/sampling! def-my-fav-macro-sampling def-my-fav-macro)