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The E documentation is sparse so it’s hard to tell. I should also mention Lisp here, since it’s the king of metaprogramming. I expect you could implement a feature like this using Common Lisp reader macros

The E documentation is sparse so it’s hard to tell. I should also mention Lisp here, since it’s the king of metaprogramming.

This week I found out that it has already been implemented twice, which is cheering news . The main inspiration is the special support for regular expression literals in languages such as Perl and Javascript. It’s annoying that regexes are privileged with special …