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Macros.


What about them?


cageface missed the major reason why Lisp in general is powerful: prefix notation is really the only clean way to implement macros.

The rest is just icing on the cake.


S-exprs == macros


Those two things are not equivalent at all. I don't think you understand what you are talking about.

S-expressions define a class of syntax styles. By themselves, they have no semantic characteristics at all. Macro's are a way in which the compiler rewrites the syntax tree based on user programs. Do you see the difference?




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