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		AnimalMuppet on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp macros for C I think that you're thinking wrong. Lisp "macros" and C/C++ "macros" are different concepts. This is not a cfront replacement.

1ris on April 22, 2014 [–]

In Lisp one usually does not write something like (begin (set! a (+ a 1)) a), while in c this is pretty common, so this is a extra issue that might be addressed separately.

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