do...until wisdom needed...

Andrew Kuchling akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Wed Apr 18 15:22:00 EDT 2001


"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> >  2. domain specific "little languages" based on Python like ptml or
> > pyslt or pymake or ...
> 
> which means that you don't have to modify the language at
> all: just use a custom importer...

Good point; PTL and PyHTML demonstrate that you can take that pretty
far.  Writing the importer and compiler is far from pretty, but macros
aren't likely to be pretty, either.  

--amk




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