Macro Guild Melee Fighters
- Lisp Dialect
Common Lisp
Synopsis
True macros are one of Lisp’s most unique and amazing features. In fact, the reason Lispers put up with all those annoying parentheses in their code is that those parentheses enable the awesome Lisp macro system.
True macros allow you to add new functionality to Lisp in a very fundamental way. Experienced Lispers can use macros to make their Lisp compiler/interpreter do their bidding cleanly and elegantly.
How It Kills Bugs
By using macros, an experienced Lisper can minimize code duplication, and better tailor the underlying language to the problem at hand. This leads to cleaner code and fewer ...
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