> > You're probably right. > I've played around with LISP macros a little, but it seems that most > of the cases where you would use a macro in LISP you don't need one in > haskell due to lazy evaluation. Although I haven't played around with > them enough to say much one way or another. > > Do you know of a particular example where a macro would be a big help > in haskell? >
Well, like many good programming tools, Lisp macros are another abstraction, but instead of dealing with data, they deal with code. They are a syntactic abstraction. They're often described as "programs that write programs." We all know how much Haskell likes abstractions ;)
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