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About on Azrea Amis · Dec 15, 2019

"Interesting" Clojure Macro Interaction

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Clojure’s macro system is a little tricky to work with (at least for me), but it’s also quite powerful. Being able to rewrite the languages AST at compile time is really cool, and the fact that Clojure’s syntax is just the data structures that normal Clojure code operate on makes writing macros a breeze (at least compared to, say, Rust or Javascript). Clojure’s macro…

Clojure’s macro system is a little tricky to work with (at least for me), but it’s also quite powerful. Being able to rewrite the languages AST at compile time is really cool, and the fact that Clojure’s syntax is just the data structures that normal Clojure code operate on makes writing macros a breeze (at least compared to, say, Rust or Javascript). Clojure’s macro expansion works in dependable way: it keeps apply macros until there are no more macro calls in the code, then compiles the resulting code.

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