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Subject: Re: MACROS Re: Could this be a BAD thing?
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In article <MARCOXA.94Oct24091702@mosaic.nyu.edu>
           marcoxa@mosaic.nyu.edu "Marco Antoniotti" writes:

> This is the LAST thing I want to see in a Dylan program. Dumping the
> parenthesis is bad enough. Using the C preprocessor in place of the
> "real thing" is workse :)

It was merely a suggestion for C programmers. I'm sure that better
solutions can be found for other languages.
 
> It all comes down to the bottom line:
> 
>         Get the macro specs out ASAP!

I assume you mean out of Dylan? So far, I haven't noticed any macros
_in_ Dylan. I think of the macros in CL as "symbolic macros", as the
term "macro" is usually used for text processing, in my experience.
Symbol crunching is what interests me, so I have no trouble with CL's
macros - they're just another example of symbol crunching. If macro
support wasn't in there already, I'd have to create something like it.
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