Python Macros

[Arich Chanachai]

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Subject: 	Re: Python Macros
Date: 	Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:08:03 -0400
From: 	Arich Chanachai <macrocosm at fastmail.fm>
To: 	Paul Foley <mycroft at actrix.co.nz>
References: 	<mailman.4250.1096902840.5135.python-list at python.org> 
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Paul Foley wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:26:19 -0400, Arich Chanachai wrote:
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>>How hard/easy is it to extend the Python syntax?  Perhaps there are 
>>macro facilities for this?
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>No.
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>>                            I'd like to add messages and message 
>>passing, for example.
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>What on Earth can you mean by this?  Python already has it, and always
>has.  What do you think "foo.bar()" is other than "pass message `bar'
>to object `foo'"?
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What if foo doesn't know about bar(), can I tell foo that perhaps it 
should send the bar() message to...say....boo?