[Python-ideas] Macros for Python

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Haoyi Li <haoyi.sg at gmail.com> wrote:

>  you write a function that takes an AST and returns an AST, register it as
> a macro, and you're off to the races.
>

Insane and insanely brilliant. I'm not going to touch this until a lot of
smoke blows over.


>  a clone of .NET's LINQ to SQL.
>

Sounds awesome.

This is completely uncharted territory for me. I'd love to hear how this
pans out in a year or so. Seems like it's very powerful and can help a lot
in shaping Python based Domain Specific Languages, but perhaps too powerful
to the point where it'll end up a horrific and complicated bug magnet.


Yuval Greenfield
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