From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T03:46:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Lisp macros

Bob Hutchison schrieb:
> 
> Ruby seems to be based on a few syntactic structures  
> and a whole bunch of method calls. Anybody can add methods to be  
> called, so extending Ruby's 'syntax' that way is easy. Adding new  funny 
> syntactic structures is what macros are for.

And as I understand it, this is exactly what Matz didn't want to happen.

> You can't do that  in Ruby. 
> You can in lisp. So, there would be one use for macros that  I don't 
> think Ruby can deal with right now.

I also think this is the main difference, though I haven't been 
programming in Lisp since more than 13 years.

Regards,
Pit