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LISP macros in practice

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-23 13:57

A few years of hobbyist cudding and I've yet to find much use for them outside making of generic special loops, of which every permutation of them have been implemented already by library contributors. LISPs aren't shit so boilerplate code doesn't happen, everything else can be made more tidy with lambdas. Has anyone used LISP's most marketable feature (hygienic or not) for anything at the app level?

Name: FrozenVoid 2011-10-23 14:31

LISP macros are useless because its easier to write inline functions to do anything instead of pages of "magical macros".
Plus i can read the inline function and instantly construct the calling conventions/parameters for another level of nesting so there is enough complexity in page of nested functions to rival any LISP code and they don't need any GC or special syntax.

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