Thanks for this detailed, well reasoned post.

It seems, after just a few minutes reading, that you have implemented
a separate macro preprocessor similar to the 'C' preprocessor in spirit.
Certainly, if such a tool is implemented in Ruby it can be part of any
project and maintained separately by that project's author.

Perhaps, over time, a standard might evolve to save others the pain
of reinventing that wheel.  Is this what you are advocating, or are you
thinking that some form of macro processing would become in integral part of
core ruby's parser?

- brent


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