"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This might be a great self experience for some "great hackers" but just > annoying for others who used to work with modular standard librarys and > think that the border of the language and an application should be > somehow fixed to enable those.
In what way do lisp macros prevent the creation of modular libraries? Common Lisp does does have mechanisms for library namespaces, and in practice a macro contained within a library is not that much different from a function contained in a library or a class contained in a library. Macros just provide another mechanism for creating useful domain-specific abstractions. The primary advantage to macros is that you can create abstractions with functionality that is not easily described as either a function or a class definition. > Kay -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an existential holocaust." --Scary Go Round -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
