[Python-Dev] A Hygienic Macro System in Python? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
19 Mar 2002 09:07:22 +0000

David Ascher <DavidA@ActiveState.com> writes:

My vote on the notion is that I want to know what good macros people would write, and then implement them in a non-macro fashion.

My favourite example of this is distutils.core.setup()

  1. looks declarative
  2. isn't

Very Pythonic, IMHO.

Cheers, M.

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