The neat thing about Common Lisp is that cl-ppcre is just a library, but it still builds native code recognizers. That’s neat about C++ templates too which is

The neat thing about Common Lisp is that cl-ppcre is just a library, but it still builds native code recognizers. That’s neat about C++ templates too which is why I drew the comparison. Personally I think Lisp macros are considerably more readable than C++ templates, especially when it comes to errors, but I’m happy to agree that reasonable minds may differ on that.