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What are the limitations of the GO macro, which I think makes these control flow manipulations possible?

• _halgari 13y ago
  There really aren't any semantic limitations of the go macro. About the only thing that doesn't work, is that you can't use the "binding" macro inside of a go macro (but using one outside the macro will work as expected). Go block translation stops at function boundaries, so you can use a for loop inside a go, but since the for returns a lazy seq, putting takes inside the body of a for doesn't really make sense (or work), instead, use dotimes or a loop/recur. Aside from that, go blocks do slow down the code they contain a bit. From my tests, this slow down is within 1.5-2x the original code. However since go block shouldn't be looping a ton, this shouldn't matter. Functions that are called within go blocks are not modified, and so retain their original performance semantics. I hope that helps.