Nydp

NYDP is "Not Your Daddy's Parentheses", a reference to Xkcd 297 (itself a reference to Star Wars), as well as to the meme Not Your Daddy's Q, where Q is a modern, improved Q unlike the Q your daddy used. "NYDP" also shamelessly piggypacks on the catchiness and popularity of the NYPD abbreviation ("New York Police Department", for those who have no interest in popular US TV or authoritarian politics).

Macro-expansion is not built-in to the interpreter; however, the compiler will invoke 'pre-compile before compiling, passing the expression to compile as an argument. You can override 'pre-compile to transform the expression in any way you wish. By default, nydp provides an implementation of 'pre-compile that performs macro-expansion.

(def pre-compile (expr)
  (map pre-compile
    (if (mac-names (car expr))
        (pre-compile (mac-expand (car expr) (cdr expr)))
        expr)))

; blah blah

  ==> (comment "blah blah")

  ==> (mac comment (txt) nil)

We do not wish to suggest by "Not Your Daddy's Parentheses" that Common Lisp, Scheme, Racket, Arc, Clojure or your favourite other lisp are somehow old-fashioned, inferior, or in need of improvement in any way.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nydp'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nydp

Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request