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8 Aug 2024 18:20:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Request: new simple pattern  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 12 Jan 2001 21:46:52
Message: <3A5FC075.C7B98698@faricy.net>
Ron Parker wrote:

> Something I'd love to see in the parser, though perhaps it would be too
> confusing, is the ability to invoke macros using alternate syntax, so
> you could have macro invocations that looked more like first-class tokens.

I think that's a great idea, like a parser extention.

Actually, but this is probably going way too far, all the built-in patterns
and objects could be ripped out and put in external data files, then it would
be very easy to make new additions.

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