On Lisp is great for learning about macros, and what is possible. That being said, what is idiomatic in CL is not necessarily idiomatic clojure. For example, p

On Lisp is great for learning about macros, and what is possible. That being said, what is idiomatic in CL is not necessarily idiomatic clojure. For example, pg tends to like anaphoric macros, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro), while Clojure tends to eschew them.