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But the beauty is that because it's a Lisp, it's all implemented in terms of macros - Clojure's complete set of concurrency tools could be written as a library.

by lukev 16y ago

But the beauty is that because it's a Lisp, it's all implemented in terms of macros - Clojure's complete set of concurrency tools could be written as a library. The only exception is the deref reader macro "@", since Clojure doesn't allow user-defined reader macros by default.

kanak 16y ago
> it's all implemented in terms of macros This is not true at present. The core data structures, and the STM machinery are implemented in java, not as macros.