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Re: Metaprogramming
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Metaprogramming |
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Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:03:41 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This is a query from over half a decade ago:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/q/22224045
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> That's not exactly about meta-programming [...]
"Metaprogramming is a programming technique in
which computer programs have the ability to
treat other programs as their data. It means
that a program can be designed to read,
generate, analyze or transform other programs,
and even modify itself while running." [1]
One should probably have a good, or at least
explicit reason to do any of that, since
otherwise it'll just make things complicated
where they don't have to be. However if one
finds such a use case and pulls it off, that's
programming at the next level, no doubt.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming
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