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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by thanatropism on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:59PM (#16409372)
There are a few cool macros in Python, e.g. decorators. It's just that you can't define your own without making it past Guido.

(To be clear, decorators aren't macros, "decorator" is a macro)

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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by xapata on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:27AM (#16411122)
You kinda can, through the file encoding specifier. It'll let you write reader macros that programmatically modify the AST, essentially.
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