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Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Sun Oct 12 16:21:10 EDT 2003 
Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> wrote previously:
|The point here is that for most languages, if you want to add some
|syntax, you have to change the definition of the language, extend the
|grammar, write a parser, extended a compiler and/or interpreter, maybe
|even the internal bytecode representation, have wars with other users of
|the language whether it's a good idea to change the language that way,
|and so forth.

Wow!  This is the clearest argument against macros I have seen yet.

These are -exactly- the kinds of difficulties I want to exist before the
syntax of my programming language can be changed--it should need
committment, effort, and clear and arguable reasons... not be something
someone can cavalierly do on an impulse.

Yours, Lulu...

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