I think you can be pretty proficient in writing regular Clojure and still find macros "twisty". Most Clojurians would agree that "The first rule of Macro Club is Dont Write Macros".
Well, I wish that meme would stop too. It makes macros sound all freakazoid, when really they're just another technique.
The obvious and natural and historically standard guidance is "Don't write a macro when a function will do."
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I think you can be pretty proficient in writing regular Clojure and still find macros "twisty". Most Clojurians would agree that "The first rule of Macro Club is Dont Write Macros".
Well, I wish that meme would stop too. It makes macros sound all freakazoid, when really they're just another technique. The obvious and natural and historically standard guidance is "Don't write a macro when a function will do."