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2 points by yelarc 5936 days ago | link | parent

A neat thing about picolisp is that its "macros" are first class objects: "defmacro" is spelt "quote"...

2 points by viergroupie 5935 days ago | link

The price there is run-time macro expansion/evaluation. I would be more hesitant to redefine syntax if it came with a performance cost.

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1 point by ryantmulligan 5935 days ago | link

I don't get it..

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