Hi, I was lucky enough to be attend both days of the event and thought the talks about NOT using macros were some of the most interesting. As a total Clojure n

Hi, I was lucky enough to be attend both days of the event and thought the talks about NOT using macros were some of the most interesting. As a total Clojure newbie with minimal Lisp chops, I liked hearing the "good vs bad" stories from Christophe Grand and Stuart Sierra with their tangles with macro-ology. One of the aspects of these talks that really resonated with me boils down to something I read in On Lisp: "By default we should use functions: it is inelegant to use a macro where a function would do. We should use macros only where they bring us some specific advantage."