From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@...>
Date: 2009-05-22T22:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

Juan Zanos wrote:
> On May 21, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Steven Arnold wrote:
>> On May 21, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Roger Pack wrote:
>>> Interesting--it's been awhile since I used C...what would
>>> macros...essentially do? An example of them?
>> I was thinking more like Lisp macros.  Check out:
>>
>>    http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
> The Ant XML example is a bit ironic.    Ant's creator regrets using  
> XML.   He believes that he should have used a scripting language  
> instead.   Take a look at Rake and you'll see a DSL that does what Ant  
> does and more.

JDD actually not only regrets using XML for Ant, he eclusively uses
Rake now to build his Java projects. At least that's what I read,
anyway.

jwm