Re: LuaMacro

[Fabien <fleutot+lua@...>]

Hi,

> Maybe there are some practical examples ...?

there are some examples of what can be achieved with a macro system, although it's not  LuaMacro, here:

http://metalua.blogspot.com

I'm not sure how many of these examples are practically doable with LuaMacro, though.

Notice
that writing a good macro extension is intrinsically complex and time
consuming, so in many cases, it would make economic sense to reuse an
existing extension, but not to write it from scratch.

> apart from [...] making [code] more readable?

Well,
readability is the main factor influencing maintainability, which
itself is the main determinant of a code base's total cost of
ownership, so that would be more than enough of a reason for me :)
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to hurt readability instead of
improving it, through distasteful usage of macros.


-- Fabien.