Explanation of macros; Haskell macros

[Espen Vestre]

"Coby Beck" <cbeck at mercury.bc.ca> writes:

> The purpose: a socket server excepts a set of specific commands from
> clients.  Client commands must be verified as allowed and the arguments
> marshalled before applying the appropriate function to the arguments.  I
> wanted a clean way to express this and automate the writing of error
> catching code.
> 
> Usage: define-server-cmd name (method-parameters) constraints code

AOL! I have almost the same thing myself, except that my macro does
less, it just registers the code in a hash table and lets other code
do the rest of the work.

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  (espen)