On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > >> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:22:29 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> I'm looking forward to the day when every application can add its own >>> keywords as is customary in Lisp. >> >> And what a wonderful day that will be! Reading any piece of code you >> didn't write yourself -- or wrote a long time ago -- will be an >> adventure! Every script will have it's own exciting new set of >> keywords doing who knows what, which makes every script nearly it's >> own language! Oh joy, I cannot wait! >> >> That's sarcasm, by the way. > > I don't hear Lispers or C programmers complaining. Yes, you can shoot > yourself in the foot with macro trickery, but macros can greatly enhance > code readability and remove the need for code generators. That's why > they are used extensively in Linux kernel code and GOOPS (Guile's object > system), for example.
How does C let you create new keywords? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list