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1 point by shader 5167 days ago | link | parent

That's not always true. If a programming system supported first class macros, then an anonymous macro could be passed in as an argument to a function, which could then apply it in a more sophisticated way at run time. I.e. apply it to a list of objects that don't even exist at compile time.

However, since arc does not support first-class macros, and neither do most compiled languages that I'm aware of, you're basically correct.