I didn't know that macros can do that! Thanks for the detailed answer.

On Monday, August 5, 2013 8:00:16 PM UTC+9, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>
> Alice <doff...@gmail.com <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > (defmacro foo 
> >   [c] 
> >   `(<! ~c)) 
> > 
> > (let [c (chan)] 
> >   (go (prn (foo c))) 
> >   (>!! c :hi)) 
> > 
> > I thought this would not work because foo is expanded after go is 
> expanded, 
> > so <! isn't visible to go. 
> > What am I missing? 
>
> `go` explicitly macroexpands the form given to it rather than relying on 
> the standard outside-in macroexpansion order.  You can see that in the 
> clojure.core.async.impl.ioc-macros namespace, i.e., there's an `expand` 
> function called by the :list implementation of the -item-to-ssa 
> multimethod. 
>
> Bye, 
> Tassilo 
>

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