do you mean syntax sugar = macro ?
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, James Reeves <jree...@weavejester.com>wrote:
> On 29 December 2011 16:35, Louis Yu Lu <louisy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Agree on looking from the angle of data structure and their internal
> > presentation. But conceptually, [] and {} are just syntax sugars:
> > [x y] -> (vector x y)
> > {x y} -> (hash-map x y)
> > #{x y} -> (hash-set x y)
>
> Well, no, not really.
>
> It's true that (vector x y) evaluates to [x y], but that's not syntax
> sugar, any more than (+ 1 1) is syntax sugar for 2.
>
> - James
>
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