[OT] code is data

[Laurent Pointal]

bruno at modulix a écrit :
> Anton Vredegoor wrote:
>> bruno at modulix wrote:
>>
>>> I still don't get the point.
>>
>> Well, I've got to be careful here, lest I'd be associated with the
>> terr.., eh, the childp..., eh the macro-enablers.
>>
>> The idea is to have a way to transform a Python (.py) module into XML
>> and then do source code manipulations in XML-space using ElementTree.
> 
> My my my... I'm not against the idea of dynamic source code
> transformation, but for heaven's sake, *why* would one put XML in the
> mix ???????

Because its "à la mode", and is better for a commercial point of view,
even if inefficient for this problem.