alt Hacker NewsI agree. Especially as someone that likes LISP-like languages and uses Janet and Fennel quite a bit (and some elisp, in the past also Clojure) but never used a macro for anything. Would love to hear more about that third dimension I am missing out on.
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joeevans1000 • last Sunday at 5:00 PM
Ditto.
Marcos are only very appealing to tyros. Most old salt Lispers avoid them. I would argue that a macro is only appropriate if you are adding a genuine syntactic feature to a language (one hint that this is the case is if your macro involves binding variables).