No macros in Python

[maney at pobox.com]

Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> Now, would you rather have one general-purpose mechanism that makes a
> lot of things possible, or a lot of special-purpose mechanisms?

I would rather have carefully chosen special-purpose mechanisms for
those uses that are important enough to deserve them rather than
encountering six slightly (or wildly) different macro-powered
special-purpose implementations of each mechanism, please.