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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:32:22 -0500

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Just throwing out some thoughts.

There are several possible use cases for new customizable syntax:

• resource allocation (lock.acquire(); try-finally: lock.release())

• defining functions with special treatment (e.g. classmethods, properties)

• defining class-like things (e.g. Zope-style interface declarations)

Maybe it's possible to invent a new statement that covers all of these? Certainly a macro system should support doing all these easily...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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