(j3.2006) (j3.2005) Re: Macro with variable number of arguments

[Aleksandar Donev]

On Monday 27 November 2006 11:11, Michael Ingrassia wrote:

> is just a token sequence being saved up for later expansion of
> assign_shortcut, and that it is not an end-macro statement for macro
> assign_shortcut (with the wrong name attached) ?
The syntax does not require a name to be specified in the END MACRO statement 
(R336 end-macro-stmt is END MACRO [ macro-name ]), so the example can be 
(taking away the excess complications):

> DEFINE MACRO :: assign_shortcut(rank)
>    DEFINE MACRO assign_%%rank(array)
>    END MACRO
> END MACRO

It seems to me that we should not let a macro-body-stmt be "END MACRO"? It can 
of course be other END statements, but allowing it to be END MACRO does seem 
to make the above example ambiguous in the grammar. We passed a paper of an 
example of a macro defining a macro, so the example should somehow be made 
legal.

Aleks

P.S. Is everyone getting duplicate messages from the J3 list?
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