[r6rs-discuss] macroexpand

[John Cowan]

Dan Muresan scripsit:

> You do realize, of course, that I'm already doing things with define-macro
> /macroexpand that cannot be done without them? And you're saying the
> language should protect me from myself and the things I have accomplished?
> Thanks, but no thanks.

Back when I wrote PDP-8 assembly language, I routinely used self-modifying
code to keep modules shorter than 128 words.  I can't do that any more,
but I've learned to live without it.

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