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No macros in Python

Beni Cherniavsky cben at techunix.technion.ac.il
Mon Dec 16 08:04:14 EST 2002 
On 2002-12-16, Laura Creighton wrote:

> > 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...
>
> I know, I know.That's why we need to lock you in a room with nothing
> but a LISP environment and refuse to let you out or feed you until you
> refuse to come out because you are too busy implementing your own language
> in the macro system.You will overcome your distaste for parentheses,
> and, (I will bet one krona on this) -- I will end up bringing you
> sandwiches because I will worry that you aren't eating enough.Then
> you will understand why Beni Cherniavsky's posts have been doing
> strange and wonderful things to my brain all weekend, and why I now
> think I have a grasp of what an alhoholic feels like when somebody
> leaves an open bottle around ...
>
> Laura
>
There was this wonderful post about Scheme:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lcy9s8n4nf.fsf%40gaffa.mit.edu

"The bending of their minds was good for them, nonetheless." sounds
similar to your message.  I belong to the later people, of course :-)

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
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