Thank you so much! I've had informal ideas quite like this from working on my "HTML rewriting system" part of my (unreleased) Common Lisp web framework. I now have a very specific search term to acquire more formalized knowledge which should speed up some future developments a lot because I won't have to independently come up with solutions to as many of the problems now.
heh. no problem. if you're interested in this kind of thing check out http://lambda-the-ultimate.com from time to time. just skimming the conversations can keep you up to date...
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you might want to google "staged programming" - it's what strongly typed languages do to get metaprogramming.
(edit: afaik it doesn't allow the full "recursive manipulation" you describe, but it does let you generate code with code)
Thank you so much! I've had informal ideas quite like this from working on my "HTML rewriting system" part of my (unreleased) Common Lisp web framework. I now have a very specific search term to acquire more formalized knowledge which should speed up some future developments a lot because I won't have to independently come up with solutions to as many of the problems now.
heh. no problem. if you're interested in this kind of thing check out http://lambda-the-ultimate.com from time to time. just skimming the conversations can keep you up to date...