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Thanks for that. I'd like to know why he decided first class macros were a bad idea.

• mschaef 9y ago
  I obviously can't speak for him, but macros do complicate things, particularly when ahead-of-time compilation gets involved. There's also the issue that macros have some of the same sorts of issues as inline functions - because they're expanded in place, they can introduce hidden forms of coupling.