do...until wisdom needed...

Douglas Alan nessus at mit.edu
Wed May 2 21:45:13 EDT 2001


Johann Hibschman <johann at physics.berkeley.edu> writes:

> I've yet to see an algol-y language that does macros well; I've heard
> good things about Dylan but I haven't looked into it yet.

> However, I've been playing with Ruby a bit, and have found that the
> concept of "blocks", which I gather they've taken from Smalltalk,
> makes most uses of macros unnecessary.  Could Python grow something
> like this?

If Python had an extensible syntax (e.g., procedural macros), Python
wouldn't need to grow this feature -- you could add it yourself.

|>oug



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