On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:29:52PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Of course, we got away from > self-modifying code for a reason; however, in the right place, it can be > very powerful (see the latest benchmarks on the common lisp regex engine > which beats perl quite handily).
What is the reason modern scripting languages have rejected macros? > If I'm rewriting someting on the fly, if I need true > programmatic interactivity (change the code in a running system), or am > using a lot of recursive-type algorithms, I'll reach for Lisp. *When* do you find heavy needs for these features? And, could that functionality by handled by something else in modern scripting langs? cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
