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swuecho on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Lisp?

generally, even bad api is easier to understand or debug than macro. and not all macros are well written.

kazinator on May 7, 2015 [–]

Macros being hard to debug may be true of some macro systems that you know.

Not all macros are well written is a poor argument; not all anything is well written ... so don't use anything!

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