From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T01:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Macros in Ruby

Jesse Jones wrote:
> In article <41102A98.806@infofiend.com>, Ben Giddings
> <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> wrote:
>>I'm sorry to say it, but I think you just proved Matz' point there.  I 
>>look at that, and it doesn't look like Ruby to me.  
> 
> It's not Ruby. It's a little domain specific language (DSL) tailored to
> a particular problem.

I don't have an opinion on macros per se, but DSLs are (in my opinion) a 
poor application for macros. To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, if you want 
racc, you know where to find it.

I'm a big fan of DSLs, but I like to build them up from the grammar.

Steve