Oscar Campbell

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(quick OT on LS here: > no way of doing stuff like for k, v in object Say what? `for .. in` - just use `for .. of`: `for k,v...

Good example with the multiple level-if's variability, highlights the problem even better! Delimiter thoughts: - Same as Crystal: `{%` works for meta-code as a preliminary try out. - For node-pasting,...

Pasting is simply taking an argument to the macro and pasting it into the resulting code (though you can run meta code on the arg-node too, for instance `do-stuff `,...

Good catch, was a bit quick on that one.

I've spent the last week's Onyx dev time on getting the internals set up for macroing. And continue on with it. - The need (as I see it) for different...

1. It's an experiment to make sure that translations can work in "cross-translation"-situations, if they need be, based on decisions for appropriate names in the stdlib later on, while still...

1. Yeah, that's a reasonable backup-route to take automatically. 2. I'll leave the name discussions for its' own issue, as said: my bad for introducing it here. 3. Any feature...

Style - not syntax. And "less compromises", not "no compromises" ;-) Such esoteric syntax as `my-array₄₇` would likely not normally be typed. Rather you'd type swiftly with the most easily...

Haha, it's terse, I like it. I'll refrain from it to save to you a fit then B-) `my-macro values` is not the same as `my-macro for...`. The macro gets...

Don't worry, it's still not dismissed. It's an important area of syntax, so I'd really like to weigh a lot of options before accepting a literal-looking expression-grouper... Getting back to...