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I would say that it's another way for the government to capitalize on capitalist activity.

To reiterate a point implied by other commenters: macro-expansion is a compile-time operation. If the language utilizes a typing system to help promote sound programming then the r…

Typed Racket is a marvelous wonder. Sadly, it is simply not appreciated enough for what it is: an utter triumph of Lisp over all challengers. ;-)

Re: Template-Haskell - sadly not enough. I have used it to generate N-tuple-generalizations of functions in toys. I simply don't get enough time to hack around in Haskell. As far a…

Nemerle already does it: http://nemerle.org/macros.html , so does Template Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Template_Haskell

Interesting. This is a common perception but not an easily justified one. A macro-system a-la Lisp (or Nemerle) could easily replace compiler plugins, and there is an active compil…

It was a mistake. A better effort would have been to implement a first-class Macro system a-la Lisp. You can see here that Nemerle supports macros and makes dealing with XML like r…

There are several decent Scala-esque alternatives to the built-in XML support (with has many things broken about it). For instance: Anti-XML http://anti-xml.org/ and Scala-Scales: …

Agreed. Macros and reader macros ;-)