No macros in Python

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon Dec 16 08:43:28 EST 2002


Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
> Writing your own Lisp Macro System is better than sex.  I _know_ -- 18 year
> old me turned down _lots_ of opportunities for sex to go hack on her
> macro system.  

I know a man with a time machine which you might be able to borrow, to go
back to when 18 year old you is otherwise occupied and, shall we say, 
take on the tasks she refused.  ;-)

> is _inevitable_ that we will fragment the Python community into a
> plethora of mutually unintelligble dialects.  
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think that word should *always* be spelled that way. :-)

-content-free-posts-still-a-specialty-ly yr's,
 Peter



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