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Re: Accumulator

>    From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
>    
>    Fair enough. There are reasons to believe that macros would violate
>    Python's design principles by decreasing the regularity of code and thus
>    making it more difficult to share and maintain code. So Python is not
>    being designed to evolve in that direction.
>    
> I am puzzled.  Could you please elaborate on what you
> mean by "decreasing the regularity"?
> 
> --Guy Steele

Macros help create 
many little languages, 
each of them diff'rent.