[Haskell-cafe] some ideas for Haskell', from Python

[Tim Wawrzynczak]

>
> You're probably right.
> I've played around with LISP macros a little, but it seems that most
> of the cases where you would use a macro in LISP you don't need one in
> haskell due to lazy evaluation.  Although I haven't played around with
> them enough to say much one way or another.
>
> Do you know of a particular example where a macro would be a big help
> in haskell?
>

Well, like many good programming tools, Lisp macros are another abstraction,
but instead of dealing with data, they deal with code.  They are a syntactic
abstraction.  They're often described as "programs that write programs."  We
all know how much Haskell likes abstractions ;)
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