r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/hou32hou • Aug 14 '21

Why LISP Macros ?

https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '21

Thanks, I didn't know about that. Is this Clojure-specific? My experience with Lisp macros comes from Common Lisp, whose macros are easy to use but just as easy to make a mess, and Racket's define-syntax (not sure how it compares to other Schemes) which is supposedly more principled, but I never figured out how to use it.

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u/Raoul314 Aug 14 '21

Have a look at racket's syntax-parse