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Common Lisp has solved macro programming a long time ago..


Sure, but Common Lisp has its own packaging system. Suppose you want to ship macros with python, or any other language; that’s the challenge.

It may seem strange to say that you can have macros in other languages, but you can. The key is to compile lists of expressions into code, and then evaluate the resulting code. But the hard part is “then what?”


That’s true. I guess other languages are more popular so it will be useful to solve this problem for them




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