No macros in Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Bruce Hoult wrote:

> In article <x78yyqiwle.fsf at guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>
> wrote:
>
> > C macros are a very poor example of the species. I was referring to
> > lisp-like macros, where you get the full functionality of the
> > language
> > to manipulate the code that the macro is dealing with.
> 
> That's pretty cool, and the most flexible it's possibel to get, but I
> think it's overkill for most cases, and not always the easiest to
> write
> or to understand.

As I've said before, I think if really what you want is the equivalent
power of Lisp macros, since Python is interpreted, a better approach
would be to write a metainterpreter that took whatever additional
constructs you wanted to add and then processed them into Python which
you could then run as a separate script.

It just seems to me that if you want that level of power in this day and
age, there are less intrusive ways to do it.

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