[Python-Dev] defmacro

[Greg Ewing]

Shane Holloway (IEEE) wrote:

> So, the question comes back to what are blocks in the language 
> extensibility case?  To me, they would be something very like a code 
> object returned from the compile method.  To this we would need to 
> attach the globals and locals where the block was from.  Then we could 
> use the normal exec statement to invoke the block whenever needed. 

There's no need for all that. They're just callable objects.

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