Re:Ask YC: Ruby and Lisp devs, please answer this (Not a fla...
by kyle-burton on Monday January 14, 2008 @05:29PM
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Other features that have piqued my interest (besides the already mentioned, and vitally important, macros) are:
- conditoins and restarts
- CLOS
- reader macros (which are distinctly different from normal macros).
If you're talking about other Lisps (besides CL), like Scheme, it's worth looking at define-syntax and syntax-rules and how they deal with some of the intricacies of creating macros with define-macro.
- conditoins and restarts - CLOS - reader macros (which are distinctly different from normal macros).
If you're talking about other Lisps (besides CL), like Scheme, it's worth looking at define-syntax and syntax-rules and how they deal with some of the intricacies of creating macros with define-macro.