No macros in Python

[Mike Meyer]

David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> writes:
> In article <mailman.1040098404.6994.python-list at python.org>,
>  Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> > You want the *second* half of the proposal, which I haven't talked
> > about yet, because I want to see the reaction to the first half.
> > The second half involves throwing out the __macro__ function and
> > adding a real, live "defmacro" statement. 
> If you want to program in lisp, why not program in lisp, rather than 
> taking a different language and pretending it's lisp?

I don't want to program in lisp. I want to program in python. I just
want macros as well, because there are things that are clumsy in
python that a good macro facility would make much saner.

        <mike

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