Hygenic Macros

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:23:43 -0700, David Pokorny wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has considered macros for Python. I have one 
> good use case. In "R", the statistical programming language, you can 
> multiply matrices with A %*% B (A*B corresponds to pointwise 
> multiplication). In Python, I have to type
> 
> import Numeric
> matrixmultiply(A,B)
> 
> which makes my code almost unreadable.

Yes, I see what you mean, it is pretty confusing. It almost looks like
a function that multiplies two matrices and returns the result. 

Have you tried coming up with better names for your arguments than A and
B? Many people find that using self-documenting variable names helps make
code easier to understand.


-- 
Steven.