From: Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T21:01:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23285] RE:  Ruby macros

Parameterized classes are "object-oriented macros" ;)
Macros are not needed while one can pass a class to a function. 

# -----Original Message-----
# From: leo@oresha.nonet [mailto:leo@oresha.nonet] On Behalf Of Leo
# Sent: 25 ??????? 2001 ?. 11:33
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# Subject: [ruby-talk:23261] Ruby macros
# 
# 
# Hi Ruby experts,
# I think that some sort of macro system similar to one found 
# in Lisp or Scheme would clearly set Ruby over its rivals like 
# Perl/Python. In the past I did some programming in Lisp and 
# Scheme and I loved macros. They are very useful and some 
# times indispensable. Not having them in Ruby is IMHO a last 
# missing feature on Ruby's path 
# to world domination:) 
# 
# Seriously, Ruby already has powerful family of eval functions 
# where one can pass a binding as a parameter. It paves the way 
# for a class and instance specific macros like
# 
# class MyC
#   defmacro myMacro(a, b, c)
#     `{....}
#   end
# end
# 
# obj = MyC.new
# obj.myMacro A,B,C 
# 
# Object Oriented macro extensions should sound exciting!!
# 
# It should not be that hard to implement macros using eval for 
# anyone who can comprehend how Ruby parser works:-)
# 
# Any thoughts?
# 
# thanks,
# --Leo--
#