On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:08:43PM +0900, George Moschovitis wrote: > matz / ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote in message news:<1060273746.085536.28127.nullmailer / picachu.netlab.jp>... > > > > There's strong reason not to have macros in Ruby, as I believe. > > Continuation does not harm you very much. > > > > is the rationale behind not using macros in Ruby documented somewhere? > is ther a relevant url? I would like to know the reasoning behind such a decision. The closest to a rationale I've found: http://www.bebear.net/ll2/LL2_Ruby.mov :-) -- _ _ | |__ __ _| |_ ___ _ __ ___ __ _ _ __ | '_ \ / _` | __/ __| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ | |_) | (_| | |_\__ \ | | | | | (_| | | | | |_.__/ \__,_|\__|___/_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| Running Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable) batsman dot geo at yahoo dot com Linux is obsolete -- Andrew Tanenbaum