Wow! The reader emits fake calls to unquote functions— allowing for custom syntax-quote-like macros if you don’t like the one built into the reader:
'~foo => (clojure.core/unquote foo)'~@foo => (clojure.core/unquote-splicing foo)
Someone in 2008 wanted a syntax-quote without symbol resolution (i.e. quasi-quote) here, and Rich added the fake calls to allow it:
It looks like a canonical quasiquote was published four years later in 2012 (which I had starred and forgot about):
https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick
source: searched on clojurians slack for “syntax quote resolve” and saw all this unearthed by @NoahTheDuke here:
https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C03S1KBA2/p1656779374489749
Wow! The reader emits fake calls to unquote functions— allowing for custom syntax-quote-like macros if you don’t like the one built into the reader:
'~foo=>(clojure.core/unquote foo)'~@foo=>(clojure.core/unquote-splicing foo)Someone in 2008 wanted a syntax-quote without symbol resolution (i.e. quasi-quote) here, and Rich added the fake calls to allow it:
It looks like a canonical quasiquote was published four years later in 2012 (which I had starred and forgot about):
https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick
source: searched on clojurians slack for “syntax quote resolve” and saw all this unearthed by @NoahTheDuke here:
https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C03S1KBA2/p1656779374489749