While on topic of custom contructs, the topic of syntactic macros has come up in the past. Does anyone know if the dev team ever considered for or against them? My interest in them was renewed when I came across Logix http://www.livelogix.net/logix/ It does not seem very active at the moment nor do they see Python as a long tem platform for their project. Although it already seemed usable in the little programs I tested it with.
I keep asking myself why isn't this more popular especially when many prominent Python devs seem to be well aware of Lisp where macros are done right. But then again, Gosling's great Lisp prowess did not seem to transfer into Java at all :-). Won't macros and type inference make Python a Lisp with a syntax that I can stand and libraries that I could use :-) ? Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a peep from Mike Salib on StarKiller either. Did he move on to other pursuits? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
