What's better about Ruby than Python?

[Olivier Drolet]

Really cute intuition pump you've got there, Alex!  :-)

Obviously, no programmer of Python, Lisp, Java, etc., would ever want
to deal with code in their preferred computer language where every
token and glyph belonged to a foreign language (i.e., of which they
are not a competent locutor). That goes without saying, but your point
is noted nonetheless.

Macros don't require that you change variable names, just the syntax.
Macros in Python would then not be equivalent to new words, but new
constructs. And yes, you need to know their meaning, but is this
effort greater than managing without them? Have you or any opponents
of macros on this news group never seen a context in which the
advantages of macros outweigh their overhead?



"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<Pi_0b.1663$Ej6.1218 at newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Olivier Drolet:
> > Macros, as found in Common Lisp, do not change
(...)
> words from different Dialects of Speech?
> 
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at dalkescientific.com