Hello all, 
I've come across the following macro, which basically tries to execute body and 
times out after ms milliseconds. It works fine :)

(defmacro time-limited [ms & body]
  `(let [f# (future ~@body)]
     (. get f# ~ms java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit/MILLISECONDS)))

If I do a (macroexpand '(time-limited 100 (println "Hello World"))) it expands 
to:
(let* [f__1760__auto__ (clojure.core/future (println "Hello"))] (.get 
f__1760__auto__ 100 java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit/MILLISECONDS))

My      questions are:
1) Where does the let* come from?!?
2) Why does f need to be a auto generated variable? Wouldn't (let* [f 
(clojure.core/future (println "Hello"))] (.get f 100 
java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit/MILLISECONDS)) suffice?
3) What's .get ??

Cheers
Andreas

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