Request: Literature on read/compile/run - time evaluation

I'm seeking for previous work about elegant ways to control evaluation
time of code, in the way Common Lisp can eval at read, compile or run
time. Most important, I want read/compile-time-evaluated code that can
operate on the source code to be compiled/interpreted later. Both
should be the same language.


In case your're interested: what I try to do is, to define a language
for layout/table descriptions and I need some form of 'macros' to
generate code automatically without a preprocessor. I think it would
be nice to have a common language both for the macros and the 'real'
statements. I want to avoid bloating the underlying language with new
control constructs and therefore need some form of user-definable
functions that can operate on the code itself.


I would appreciate any pointers to books, papers and languages
etc. for clean implementations of such schemes.


I'll mail a summary to everyone interested (too little audience for
posting, I think).


Martin
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