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PuercoPop on March 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Klisp – An implementation of the Kernel programmin...

You cannot pass macros as values as they do not exist at runtime. (So no macros can be passed to map/reduce as opposed to the fexprs).

P.D. Msimoni has written about fexprs (and a Lisp dialect with fexprs on JS, wat.js) if you want to read about them some more.

_vya7 on March 17, 2016 [–]

Long ago, when I was learning Clojure, and thought "it's so inconsistent that I can't pass `if` to a function," I would have found fexprs interesting. But I've since thought about it more and realized there's absolutely no need for it at all.

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