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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by MonkeyClub on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:34AM (#34410993)
I think he meant Common Lisp macros, a powerful feature of the language (and missing from Smalltalk) that allows one to easily write code that writes code.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by guestbest on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:08AM (#34412507)
Are macros performant enough to allow a power user to replace a scripting language like elisp for a long file of strings, which if I remember correctly was the main issue with using emacs over clisp, unstructured strings.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by kagevf on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:41AM (#34412875)
Common Lisp macro expansion happens at compile time, so they wouldn't affect runtime performance.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by ElevenLathe on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:50AM (#34414865)
...but it's a fair thing to think about if the "poweruser" interface encourages creating new macros on the fly. Common Lisp can "compile" at the REPL or otherwise in the live environment.
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