Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012)

Re:Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012) by xuejie on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:32AM (#12113514)

This is actually one example I'd like to refer to when people are talking that alternative languages with macros can achieve Lisp's flexibility: https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/08/16/how-to-define-new-intrins...

Till this point I haven't seen anything similar in languages other than Lisp. Maybe Elixir can do this but I lack enough knowledge to judge.

BTW: that does not mean I'm a Lisp zealot, been there but has been away for quite some time.

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Re:Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012) by gpderetta on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:37AM (#12114233)

How's that better than inline assembler? It seems to me that it is highly compiler (i.e. SBCL) dependent.

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Re:Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (2012) by xuejie on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:11AM (#12115105)

I agree, it's essentially an inline assembler, but the fact that it integrates so well with SBCL tells us that the SBCL team really did an awesome job here.

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