Closes#880. The changes compared to the pull request are:
- defn-alias and defmacro-alias are moved to contrib instead of being
fully removed.
- Minor documentation fixes, that were left in after the redundant
symbol removals.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Fixed up the documentation language here and there, related to the alias
removals in previous commits.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Since slice was renamed to cut, update some newly introduced functions
and macros that were using slice, to use cut instead.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
defclass now has a new syntax:
(defclass Name [BaseList]
[property value
property value] ;; optional
(defn method [self]
self.property))
Anything after the optional property list (which will be translated to a
setv within the class context) will be added to the class body. This
allows one to have side effects and complex expressions within the class
definition.
As a side effect, defining methods is much more friendly now!
Closes#850.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
The `with-decorator` special form is not the most ergonomic—this commit
introduces a new builtin `#@` reader macro that expands to an invocation
of `with-decorator`. To support this, `reader_macroexpand` is made to
also look in the default `None` namespace, in imitation of how
regular (non-reader) macros defined in hy.core are looked up. The
docstring of `hy.macros.reader` is also edited slightly for accuracy.
This in the matter of issue #856.
Much like how `can_compile` returns the compilation result, which some
tests make use of, it may be useful for for `cant_compile` to return the
exception object that it caught, for more specific assertions.
Python 3 supports keyword-only arguments as described in the immortal
PEP 3102. This commit implements keyword-only argument support for Hy
using a `&kwonly` lambda-list-keyword with semantics analogous how
`&optional` arguments are handled: `&kwonly` arguments are either a
symbol, in which case the keyword argument so named is mandatory, or a
two-element list, the first of which is the symbolic name of the keyword
argument and the second of which is its default value if not
supplied. If Hy is running under Python 2, attempting to use `&kwonly`
args will raise a HyTypeError.
This effort is with the aim of resolving #453.
