[pypy-dev] Questions about the C core

Samuele Pedroni pedronis at bluewin.ch
Sun Jan 12 02:50:59 CET 2003


> Has anyone thought about features that Python does not have that should be
> in Minimal?  My first candidate would be (ducks) macros,

as a final user visible feature, I hope not. As an implementation then
invisible tool maybe/why not.

> since that could
> drastically simplify constructing core Python features.  I have some
> thoughts on pythonic ways to do that which I need to write up.

there is really no pythonic way to do macros. You can check this python-dev
thread

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1076771

My personal opinion is that entering the realm of language (re)design vs.
simply implementation is a risky move...




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