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0 pointsdwattttt11mo ago0 comments

...? Proc macros _are_ vanilla Rust code written to manipulate a token stream.

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You’re right. I should have said I want vanilla Rust code for vanilla macros and I want to manipulate the AST not token streams.

Token manipulation code is frequently full of syn! macro hell. So even token manipulation is only kind of normal Rust code.

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0 pointsdwattttt11mo ago0 comments

...? Proc macros _are_ vanilla Rust code written to manipulate a token stream.

You’re right. I should have said I want vanilla Rust code for vanilla macros and I want to manipulate the AST not token streams.

Token manipulation code is frequently full of syn! macro hell. So even token manipulation is only kind of normal Rust code.

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