Michael Livshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nobody seems to concerned that Haskell lacks macros. What's up with > > that? > > Haskell is lazy, so it doesn't need macros (well, it would be more > accurate to say that by not evaluating function arguments until they > are needed it makes many of the usual macro usecases moot). > > lazyness has a nontrivial cost, however, both runtime and cognitive. > > hoping he's not answering a rhetorical question,
It's a reasonable answer. Does SML have a macro system? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
