Hey All, I'd like to announce the release of MacroPy 0.1.7 (https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy). MacroPy is an implementation of Syntactic Macros in the Python Programming Language, which we used to implement a pretty impressive list of demo macros:
- Case Classes, easy Algebraic Data Types from Scala - Pattern Matching from the Functional Programming world - Tail-call Optimization - String Interpolation, a common feature, and Pyxl, which is basically XML interpolation. - Tracing and Smart Asserts, from every programmer's wildest dreams. - PINQ to SQLAlchemy, a clone of LINQ to SQL from C# - Quick Lambdas from Scala and Groovy - Parser Combinators, inspired by Scala's - JS Snippets, cross compiling snippets of Python into equivalent Javascript Along with a really nice readme which serves both as a demonstration of the capabilities of macros, and also as an introduction to the macro-writing process. This is probably going to be the last release that bundles all these demos together; future releases will begin properly breaking up the various macros into their own projects, and nicely polishing the core infrastructure into a solid foundation for others to build upon. We think that this is a pretty cool project, and can serve as a easy way for people to prototype modifications to the python language. We're looking forward to your feedback and welcome contributions =) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
