What you can do with macros in Lisp

[Kenny Tilton]

A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:49:24 GMT, 
> 	Kenny Tilton <ktilton at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>>Right. I want to start this almost 500 message thread over again and say 
>>to the Pythonistas, "I thought you valued visually cleaner code?".
> 
> 
> Yes, but we also value people who know when the horse is dead.

nonsense. in those 500 messages not once did Lispniks point out that 
macros can be used for no good end other than to hide a lot of 
boilerplate typing (and that is a very good end AFAIAC. Visually cleaner 
code is very important to Pythonistas, so this was a serious oversight. 
(It would not have been in a visually ugly language.)

this horse needs killing, too, but we all agree on cleaner code so one 
good Pedro Martinez fastball in the hear should have Old Nell down 
faster than Zim.

:)

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