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by sbensu 3191 days ago
From this project, I gather it wouldn't be hard to remove the need for calling `lisp!` on every form.

Then you'd have a lisp syntax on Rust that is not embedded. Is that correct?
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steveklabnik 3191 days ago
It would be impossible to remove the `lisp!` on every form, as you have to actually invoke the macro.

You could make a build script that would read in lisp files, and then run them through a pre-processor of sorts before compiling. That's the closest thing, and it'd still require setting up that build.rs.

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kazinator 3191 days ago
> You could make a build script that would read in lisp files, and then run them through a pre-processor of sorts before compiling.

At that point, you would be better off using a Lisp implementation and its expander over a bunch of Lisp to Rust macros.

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steveklabnik 3191 days ago
Sure. I don't suggest that this is a good idea, just that it'd be possible this way.
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aidenn0 3191 days ago
Just look at the progn expansion and create one like it that doesn't add the curly braces, and that ought to work I think; (perhaps call it "prog" or something).
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