From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-11-10T18:20:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Recording of the Ruby segement on LL2 Hello Rich, Sunday, November 10, 2002, 7:43:12 AM, you wrote: RK> The whole issue of macros and extending the language of Ruby seems RK> a bit odd to me. With Ruby its quite easy to add what appear to RK> be core language additions without macros, just by RK> extending/overriding core Class/Module methods. I understand the RK> difference, but I have not encountered the need in practice. difference is between syntax vs semantics -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru