Jacek Generowicz wrote:
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
Until some advocate of a Python macro facility adds more detail to the
proposal ... it is really hard for me to have much of any concrete
idea what is being proposed ... because Lisp-style macros rely on the
fact that Lisp code is expressed in a fundamental Lisp data structure,
in the form of its parse tree. This ain't the case in Python, so the
whole macro business suddenly gets more complicated by an order of
magnitude or two.
I just can't imagine what such a macro system would look like. Maybe
someone with deep knowledge of Dylan can enlighten us.
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
Until some advocate of a Python macro facility adds more detail to the
proposal beyound 'Lisp/Scheme-like maco facility', it is really hard
for someone like me, who has used neither, to have much of any
concrete idea of what is being proposed.
proposal beyound 'Lisp/Scheme-like maco facility', it is really hard
for someone like me, who has used neither, to have much of any
concrete idea of what is being proposed.
Until some advocate of a Python macro facility adds more detail to the
proposal ... it is really hard for me to have much of any concrete
idea what is being proposed ... because Lisp-style macros rely on the
fact that Lisp code is expressed in a fundamental Lisp data structure,
in the form of its parse tree. This ain't the case in Python, so the
whole macro business suddenly gets more complicated by an order of
magnitude or two.
I just can't imagine what such a macro system would look like. Maybe
someone with deep knowledge of Dylan can enlighten us.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm>D52BAE.5050704%40blueyonder.co.ukNOTthisBIT&rnum
This was my attempt at putting down some of the things that I'd like to
see in Python Macros/
Cheers, Pad.
