From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-08T01:29:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does Ruby have callcc?

Hi,

In message "Re: Why does Ruby have callcc?"
    on 03/08/07, Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:

|How consistent is this w/ your "no featuritis" policy?  In LL2 you had
|to explain why Ruby had callcc but no macros; your answer was that the
|latter are more easily abused ("too powerful" IIRC).

There's strong reason not to have macros in Ruby, as I believe.
Continuation does not harm you very much.

|Do you still believe that or does "I provide the features, you use them"
|represent a new policy?

I provide the features (which I choose), you use them.

							matz.