From: John Knight <john@...>
Date: 2001-11-25T07:54:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26376] Re: Table: Ruby versus Smalltalk, Objective-C,      C++,  Java;

After I sent my comment out, I started to think about the lack of macros in ruby.
I am not sure  I understand how block structures replace macros.
They may replace closuress but macros?
Actually I am in over my head at the moment.
John
Jakub Travnik wrote:

> John Knight wrote:
>
> > Thank you. That is the best article I have read in a very long time. I hope to be able to substitute ruby for lisp throughout the article. Do you think that is possible?
> > John
>
> I have read that some time ago.
>
> Ruby does not have any macros and lisp macros are the main point in the
> article.
> However block structures can be used usually instead.
>
> Jakub Travnik
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