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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by yvdriess on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:12PM (#17443482)
Writing non-trivial macros in Scala or Nim will quickly liberate you of this notion.
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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by _yawn on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:21PM (#17444159)
What problems do you run into? I'm familiar with lisp's macro system but didn't get to look into hygienic macros in other language, and was wondering if they are equivalent.
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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp... by pathsjs on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:25PM (#17443625)
In fact, I do :-)
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