"No one can be told what the matrix is." Well, the best way to understand the macros is to try it out yourself. John Lawrence Aspden published some really helpful tutorials om macros, and a kata - try it! Links in the end.
There are some other code examples around, also look in the source-code of clojure core and various clojure contrib libraries for a lot of examples, some of which you have to contemplate and come back to later. They have some macros in the code. Also beware that you most often don't want to use macros in the first place, since you can solve most problems with the incredible powerful functions as well. Last but not least I would recommend getting some good books on Clojure, I started with "Programming Clojure" of Stuart Halloway and it was really helpful for me. Most problems can be expressed as a sequences of key-value-maps to which you apply map and reduce (or nowadays protocols for more speed). Be prepared to spend some time getting your head around the transition to functional, lazy, immutable code with macro-programming, it will be worth it. You will still have good use of you java-knowledge, but will probably structure your programs differently. I also had great help of the beginning of Paul Grahams Practical Common Lisp avail free at: http://pragprog.com/book/shcloj/programming-clojure Macro kata: http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/11/syntax-quote-kata-for-confused.html Macro tutorial: http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/09/clojure-macro-tutorial-part-i-getting.html Clojure source code repositories: https://github.com/clojure/ Programming Clojure: http://pragprog.com/book/shcloj/programming-clojure /Linus 2011/10/31 vikbehal <vikbe...@gmail.com> > Can anyone give me some basic example which contained nested quotes > and unquotes? with explanation at each step! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
