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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by lispm on Saturday September 10, 2016 @05:52PM (#12471041)
> The most common use of LISP macros is to avoid typing lambda quite so much

LispWorks

    CL-USER 1 > (let ((n-macros 0) (n-with-macros 0) (with-macros nil))
                  (do-all-symbols (s (values n-macros n-with-macros))
                    (when (macro-function s)
                      (incf n-macros)
                      (let ((name (symbol-name s)))
                        (when (and name
                                   (> (length name) 4)
                                   (string-equal name "WITH" :start1 0 :end1 4))
                          (incf n-with-macros)
                          (push s with-macros))))))
    1186  ; macros
    182   ; with- macros

Note also that

    (with-slots (a b)
        foo
      (+ a b))

is not the same as:

    (call-with-slots foo
                     '(a b)
                     (lambda (a b) (+ a b)))

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