The How of Macros - a dive into the details of macro implementation

[marick]

I got sidetracked into looking into the details of macro implementation and ended up writing up some text to help me understand. I’ve polished that up into five blog posts:

• Elixir compilation
• syntax trees
• literal data
• quote
• unquote

That covers the essentials, I think, so I offer them up to you. If you find them interesting, the last post gives you my email address and twitter name, so that you can encourage me to write more. (No fair peeking ahead!)

[dimitarvp]

That looks very impressive, thanks so much for taking the time and energy to write it up!

[bottlenecked]

Nice write up, I enjoyed reading it. Macros are a heady subject such that approaching it from different angles makes a huge impact in understanding it better