From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T08:20:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RLisp - Lisp naturally embedded in Ruby


On Jul 25, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

> On 7/25/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW, did you consider adding hygienic macros?
>
> I couldn't understand them from the standard, and Paul Graham
> keeps saying that they're horrible, so I wasn't very inclined to  
> try :-)

Umm, where does he say that?

I thought his view was that "real" macros are more important/powerful/ 
useful, but hygienic ones are good to have around as backup.

-- Elliot Temple
http://www.curi.us/blog/