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Mar 12, 2018 at 22:36
Really cute Clojure project that builds a full parse tree (i.e including whitespace), allows code to transform the _abstract_ syntax tree, then splices the changed sexp whilst preserving source comments! https://vimeo.com/45695419 Enables code transformations that look like macros.

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