On Nov 2, 5:40 ¨Βν¬ ΆΓαμεβ ΓμαυσεξΆ Όφιλλ®®®ΐηναιμ®γονχςοτεΊ > It's likely that quite a few of the features for ruby that get > requested could actually be implemented by macros. It's probably > appropriate that most of these requests are rejected; we don't really > need a lot of global changes to the language. However, if users can > write their own macros to scratch some of these itches, that's a > better solution. They get the feature they want in just the program > that needs it, and the rest of us get a stable, predictable language > without a lot of weird new features in all other ruby programs. Or we could just write our programs in "Macro-Ruby" and to put a death nail in so called predictable language. ;) _._ _._ |||| |||| ||||_ ___ _|||| | || .-'___`-. || | \ / .' .'_ _'. '. \ / /~~| | (| b d |) | |~~\ /' | | | ' | | | `\ , /__.-: ,| | `-' | |, :-.__\ , |'-------( \-''""/.| /\___/\ |.\""''-/ )------'| | \_.-'\ / '-._____.-' \ /'-._/ | |.---------\ /'._| _ .---. === |_.'\ /--------.| ' \ / | |\_\ _ \=v=/ _ | | \ / ' `. | | \_\_\ ~~~ (_) | | .' `'"'|`'--.__.^.__.--'`|'"'` \ / `,..---'"'---..,' :--..___..--: TO DSL... \ / |`. .'| AND BEYOND! | :___: | | | | | | | | | |.-.| |.-.| |`-'| |`-'| | | | | / | | \ |_____| |_____| ':---:-'-:---:' / | | \ jgs /.---.| |.---.\ `.____; :____.' T.