Chapter 2Advance Your Macro Techniques
Most of the macros you’ve seen so far have been small and straightforward. Wouldn’t it be great if they could all be like that? Unfortunately, as you do more and more with macros, the syntax you know so far can get unwieldy.
What if you had to write an assert macro like the one that comes with Clojure? Given what you know at this point, you’d need to do something like this:
| advanced_mechanics/assert_no_syntax_quote.clj | |
| | (defmacro assert [x] |
| | (when *assert* ;; check the dynamic var `clojure.core/*assert*` to make sure |
| | ;; assertions are enabled |
| | (list 'when-not x |
| | (list 'throw |
| | (list 'new 'AssertionError |
| | (list 'str "Assert failed: " |
| | (list 'pr-str (list 'quote x)))))))) ... |
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