Explanation of macros; Haskell macros
Peter Seibel
peter at javamonkey.com
Sat Nov 1 01:47:48 EST 2003
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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