From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-08-03T03:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Macros in Ruby

In article <5d4c6124040802104572179afa@mail.gmail.com>,
Lennon Day-Reynolds  <rcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Personally, I think macros could be an interesting tool for very
>special cases, but they're not an essential feature for 90% of
>developers. Now, exposing the AST with a high-level API could have
>other benefits: code analysis and optimization, JIT compilers,
>documentation generators, etc.
>

....and code translators, and lots of other cool things.  

Yes, this would be great to have.

Phil