Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "No Boilerplate" channel.

  1. The key point is that these macros (like those in LISP) are syntax-based, not string-based. This is why ♯define in C is such a pain to use, so fragile and fiddly: because it’s based on string manipulation. I thought it was simply because the string manipulation wasn’t powerful enough. So I had a play with m4, which is a much more powerful string-based macro language. And it is, if anything, even more fragile and fiddly than the C preprocessor. How do you tell which languages get it right? The word to look for is “homoiconicity”.
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  2.  @vitalyl1327  Python can do that. I used it in my “Seaskirt” wrapper for the Asterisk telephony engine, to offer both synchronous and asynchronous versions of the main API classes from a common code base.
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