sweet.js: transforming occurrences of a repeated token

Question

I want to define a sweet macro that transforms

{ a, b } # o

into

{ o.a, o.b }

My current attempt is

macro (#) {  
  case infix { { $prop:ident (,) ... } | _ $o } => {
    return #{ { $prop: $o.$prop (,) ... } }
  }
}

However, this give me

SyntaxError: [patterns] Ellipses level does not match in the template

I suspect I don't really understand how ... works, and may need to somehow loop over the values of $prop and build syntax objects for each and somehow concatenate them, but I'm at a loss as to how to do that.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '16 at 03:12

The problem is the syntax expander thinks you're trying to expand $o.$prop instead of $prop: $o.$prop. Here's the solution:

macro (#) {  
  rule infix { { $prop:ident (,) ... } | $o:ident } => {
    { $($prop: $o.$prop) (,) ... }
  }
}

Notice that I placed the unit of code in a $() block of its own to disambiguate the ellipse expansion.

Example: var x = { a, b } # o; becomes var x = { a: o.a, b: o.b };.

sweet.js: transforming occurrences of a repeated token

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