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J's [http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d310n.htm explicit definitions] might also be considered an example of metaprogramming, since explicit definitions have data dependent syntactic types. |
J's [http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d310n.htm explicit definitions] might also be considered an example of metaprogramming, since explicit definitions have data dependent syntactic types. |
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=={{header|Lua}}== |
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Due to the way Lua's syntactic sugar is designed, metatables can make some Lua code look like a Domain-Specific Language, despite technically being (mostly) just specialized operator overloading. |
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For example: |
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<lang lua> |
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class "foo" : inherits "bar" |
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{ |
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} |
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</lang> |
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is perfectly valid syntax despite Lua not having a built in concept of classes or inheritance. |
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=={{header|Perl}}== |
=={{header|Perl}}== |
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