No macros in Python

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Tue Dec 17 02:09:19 EST 2002


In article <mailman.1040098404.6994.python-list at python.org>,
 Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> You want the *second* half of the proposal, which I haven't talked
> about yet, because I want to see the reaction to the first half.
> 
> The second half involves throwing out the __macro__ function and
> adding a real, live "defmacro" statement. 

If you want to program in lisp, why not program in lisp, rather than 
taking a different language and pretending it's lisp?

-- 
David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/



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