[arc776]

> Something I don't see here is macros that generate other macros, but the question is how much you really want that anyway

You can do that in Nim in a readable way.

  import macros
  macro genMacro(name: untyped): untyped =
    result = quote do:
      macro `name`: untyped =
        result = quote do:
          echo "Foo"

  genMacro(bar)
  bar # Generate and perform the echo

Surprisingly I've actually used this kind of thing!

In one of my projects I use a macro to parse a set of types for fields and generate constructor macros for them.

The generated constructor macro passes through the parameters it's given to the default built-in constructor but does some setup before.

The final generated code is a normal built-in construction without proc calling yet with special fields initialised automatically.

[thsealienbstrds]

> In one of my projects I use a macro to parse a set of types for fields and generate constructor macros for them.

Funny, I did a similar thing! :)