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Re: macro expansion ?

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From Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
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Date Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:11:42 +0100
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On 2011-06-29 09:15:10 +0100, Andrew Haley said:

> Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I think I'm rapidly getting into the 'but you wouldn't do it like that'
>> teritory. You'd just define a word that did the calcutation, and then
>> use it with somthing like [ 15 5 GCD ] LITERAL.
> 
> Exactly.  You're already got immediate words, which are like LISP
> macros in that they do computation at runtime; they're not just
> expanded.  Simple text macros are just a limited version of the same
> idea.
> 
> Andrew.

I kind of knew that's where this conversation was going. ;)

Can anyone see a good reason for keeping this MACRO word at all ? I 
might just bin it.

Chris

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  Re: macro expansion ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-06-28 10:58 -0500
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        Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 19:02 +0100
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              Re: macro expansion ? Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 19:47 +0100
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