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		_19qg on July 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Designing a Language Without a Parser That's not how Lisp works. Lisp macros don't operate on an AST.

iopq on July 9, 2023 [–]

I don't know how they work, how do they work?

_19qg on July 11, 2023 | [–]

Macros get and produce unparsed Lisp code, as nested lists.

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