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kingkongrevenge
on Feb 28, 2007
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Example of Lisp Macros
None of these examples demonstrate something that can't be done procedurally. He never actually answers the question "What is the point of macros?"
ecuzzillo
on Feb 28, 2007
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You CAN do it procedurally; in fact, you can do it in Brainfuck, since Brainfuck is Turing-complete. The point is, macros let you stop repetitively writing the same boilerplate code, and let you get down to the point.
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