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Why aren't there any macros in ulisp?

Open hunar1997 opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Hello :D

This is a very interesting project, but why aren't there defmacros? Is it impossible to implement or you just delayed it for later :) I tried making it without editing c++ source code but didn't have much success

Thanks for reading :D

hunar1997 avatar Aug 22 '21 05:08 hunar1997

Sorry for the delay in replying. I had to leave out quite a lot from Common Lisp in order to fit Lisp on the target platforms I had in mind, and I felt that macros were less important than some other features for typical applications.

Is there a particular application you have that would need macros?

technoblogy avatar Aug 27 '21 10:08 technoblogy

It's actually the tiniest implementation which has the most of common lisp :D I haven't used it yet so I don't know if i will miss macros or not :)

Thanks for the reply

hunar1997 avatar Aug 27 '21 11:08 hunar1997