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		yason on June 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Macros in CoffeeScript Isn't this just lexical macros? I expected a HN headline to refer at least to a novel Lisp style AST macro implementation; there's m4 and cpp for basic textual macro expansion and those are very old news.

davidpadbury on June 26, 2011 [–]

It's actually working on the CoffeeScript AST. Admittedly the example I used doesn't demonstrate this particularly well.

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