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No macros in Python

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Sun Dec 15 22:05:28 EST 2002 
|Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters wrote:
|> But in general I would challenge
|> Cherniavsky, or anyone else, to present a case where anything could be
|> done significantly more easily in Python if macros were added.  I really
|> do not think there are any such situations.

Carl Banks <imbosol at vt.edu> wrote previously:
|the macro I've most often wished I had (in other languages, not
|Python):  The return statement would return from the function this macro
|is expanded in, of course.  I don't need it in Python because exceptions
|are a much better method here.  God knows the Python source code could
|use it.

Doesn't this rather illustrate my point.  Banks states that Python
doesn't need this.  I agree of course.  Actually, I don't really
understand what the point is in other languages--C, for example, often
uses return flags for this same purpose, which seems fine too.

Yours, Lulu...

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