27 Aug
2007
27 Aug
'07
4:01 p.m.
At Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:04:17 +0200, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
In Scheme, on can "quote" code, so that it becomes data. Microsoft's F# and C# 3.0 also have something similar that turns code into "expression trees". The latter is used extensively in LINQ which translates plain C# code into SQL code or any other code at runtime (this idea came from FP I heared)
Depending on what you are trying to do, you might also be able to use some of the DSL techniques that Lennart Augustsson has been exploring in his blog over the past couple months. This is probably a good starting point: http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html j.