My understanding is that the Clojure community discourages the use of macro. The preference is to use data over functions, and functions over macro. The reason

My understanding is that the Clojure community discourages the use of macro. The preference is to use data over functions, and functions over macro. The reason is that macros do not compose well. Yes, macros are good for developing DSLs, so they are mostly used in developing libraries, but most application developers do not need to use macro. The wide spread macro usage probably contributed to the fragmentation of CL community. Taking such lessons to heart, Clojure library authors tend to reuse commonly accepted DSL forms, e.g. hiccup is the DSL for writing HTML, and most authors have adopted it when developing their own libraries. I think this is a good thing.