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Fine. Would lisp macros make sense in a language that isn't fully parenthesized?


Factor https://factorcode.org/

by comparison to gp's article Facotr macros are easy because instead of knowing exactly where and what the arguments are in Factor the reader doesn't have to care.


Yes: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rafkind/papers/honu-2012.pdf

Honu is a language with Javascript-like syntax, but has support for syntax-case style macros.




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