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JeanPierre
on May 12, 2012
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Automatic programming: write code that writes code
Isn't that just syntactic sugar[1]? I cannot see any kind of metaprogramming going on here - unless you can define attr_accessor and similar parts yourself.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
stcredzero
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Isn't that just syntactic sugar[1]?
Actually, it's runtime-during-parsing magic, IIRC.
philwelch
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar