David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com> writes:
> William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:10:47 +0000, Peter Seibel wrote:
> >
> > > In chapter 8 of Practical Common Lisp there is a "Just So" story, The
> > > Story of Mac, about how macros came to be. ("Just So" as in Rudyard
> > > Kipling's Just So stories about how, say, the elephant got it's
> > > trunk.) So far the feedback on that section has been mixed--some folks
> > > hate it; others like it.
> >
> > I liked it, but I thought you might be able to trim it down quite a bit.
> > It seemed to carry on for a long while after it became obvious what the
> > conclusion was going to be... maybe that's just because I've grown up
> > knowing all about real macros though, so I know what the conclusion
> > *should* be ;-)
>
> Those wouldn't be crocodile tears, would they? Don't mind my
> insatiable curiosity.
On the great, gray-green, greasy Limpopo river? :-)
--
Jim Janney