Re: the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros.

2006-08-05 Thread Terry Reedy
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the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros.

2006-08-04 Thread atbusbook
macros are sort of like c macros but more powerful. they are the manafestation of treating code like data. lisp code is just a textual representation of a data structure that is the list. this means that you can manipulate code to emulate structured controll constructs and elemanate boilerplate cod