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gruseom
on June 7, 2009
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Ask HN: Are macros still an enormous edge in the p...
It's both, no? You can always write macroexpanded code by hand, only with much repetition, so in that sense macros are always compacting.
Except, I suppose, for perverse macros which expand into shorter code :)
mahmud
on June 7, 2009
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It's for both, but utility functions also serve the same purpose (which is why you see people claiming they could do whatever Lisp macros do with function/methods/classes/monads/templates/makefiles, etc.) :-P
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Except, I suppose, for perverse macros which expand into shorter code :)