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2 points by aw 5085 days ago | link | parent

quasiquote works like a macro (in fact, you can implement it as a macro), and macros expand into a single value. That is, in

   (a b c (foo) d e f)
foo can expand into X or (X Y Z), but it can't splice itself into the surrounding list.

If you extend macros so that they can splice themselves, then you could implement a quasiquote that would be able to do that as well.