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Re: [Chicken-users] How to instantiate a Meroon object by class name.
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Ed Watkeys |
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Re: [Chicken-users] How to instantiate a Meroon object by class name. |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:12:54 -0400 (EDT) |
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Benedikt Rosenau said:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:44AM -0400, Ed Watkeys wrote:
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> Mmm, eval at runtime. Is there no way to do this by lazy evaluation, i.e.
> promises (delay)?
Well here's my macro:
(define-macro (make-instance class . rest)
`(instantiate ,(eval class) ,@rest))
That eval occurs at compile-time, correct?
(macroexpand-1 '(make-instance 'Foo)) => (instantiate Foo)
Regards,
Ed
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