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I mean I'm asking about concrete differences in how they fundamentally work, since I'm not familiar with fexprs in the first place, and (as someone who doesn't
by Sniffnoy 4y ago
I mean I'm asking about concrete differences in how they fundamentally work, since I'm not familiar with fexprs in the first place, and (as someone who doesn't use Lisp) not very familiar with macros either. I'm not asking about larger consequences like the sort you describe in this answer.
- rileyphone 4y agoIn that case, I would recommend reading this post. Shutt explains it much better than I can. https://fexpr.blogspot.com/2011/04/fexpr.html https://fexpr.blogspot.com/2011/04/fexpr.html
- Sniffnoy 4y agoThat post doesn't mention macros at all, so it does not seem to contain the macro-vs-fexpr contrast I'm looking for.