From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T20:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: Lisp macros

On 9/27/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/05, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
> > On 9/26/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> > > Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > >
> > Matz has said (at the Lightweight Language Conf) that Ruby will never
> > have macros because they are too easily abused, by the average person,
> > to mutate the language.
>
> Was he joking?

Judge for yourself:

  http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/

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Jim Freeze