From whence Lisp envy?

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Mon Dec 16 22:49:18 EST 2002


>> Note that if you apply the module naming rules to macros in
>> the same way that you do functions and other out-of-module references,
>> you can't have anything like the Lisp explosion of macros-that-
>> are-indistinguishable-from-the-language, precisely because of
>> the elegant (and IMO _correct_) way that Python handles modules.
>
>What about "from mymacros import *"?

That form is already essentially deprecated. Anyone using it, without
regard to what they might be importing, is asking for any trouble that
they get. And deserving it, too.

C//




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