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"has X so you don't need macros" is not equivalent to "has macros" (otherwise nearly every language could claim to be "a lisp.")

• TylerE 14y ago
  But this isn't "because of X". Anything you can write as a macro in lisp you can write as a normal function in haskell, without special gymnastics.
  • finnw 14y ago
    Not quite everything. Macros can define new types, for example.