Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:32PM
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Fair enough, I was just responding to this:
> A good Lisp programmer would never write such inefficient code. Why create a local function here when you can easily write a macro that expands into a loop with expr as its body?
The nice thing about the call-with style is that it makes it easier to redefine your macro's functionality without recompiling all the call sites.
> A good Lisp programmer would never write such inefficient code. Why create a local function here when you can easily write a macro that expands into a loop with expr as its body?
The nice thing about the call-with style is that it makes it easier to redefine your macro's functionality without recompiling all the call sites.