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Re:Ask YC: Ruby and Lisp devs, please answer this (Not a fla... by db4n on Monday January 14, 2008 @08:25PM (#98448)
Macros can be used to automate function definition. You can't use blocks and HOFs for that, because definition occurs at compile time. You can also automate definition of other macros.

http://paste.lisp.org/display/54227

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