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107 points winkywooster | 3 comments | 27 Nov 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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parpfish ◴[07 Dec 25 16:21 UTC] No.46182834[source]▶
it'd be nice if there was an attempt to give an example of what kind of powers moving into 3d-lispland allows instead of just saying that it's beyond the comprehension of the 2d-planar programmers.

because, i guarantee that it's not beyond our comprehension. at some point the author was a 2d-er that read/did something and had their understanding expanded. so... do that for us

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1. 1313ed01 ◴[07 Dec 25 16:36 UTC] No.46182958[source]▶
I 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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2. joeevans1000 ◴[07 Dec 25 17:00 UTC] No.46183127[source]▶
Ditto.
3. nathan_compton ◴[07 Dec 25 18:51 UTC] No.46184032[source]▶
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).