Explanation of macros; Haskell macros

[Peter Seibel]

Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz at web.de> writes:

> And, of course, macros can evaluate at compile time. Personally, I'd
> prefer to do compile-time evaluation based on "the compiler will
> evaluate all known-to-be-constant expressions". The advantage here
> is that programmers don't need to learn another sublanguage for
> compile-time expressions.

Ah, but in Lisp we don't have to. We use Lisp.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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