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... so 'macrology' means "use of macros" rather than "long and tedious talk without much substance"? Is this usage specific to Clojure, or to all languages that
by nohat00 12y ago
... so 'macrology' means "use of macros" rather than "long and tedious talk without much substance"? Is this usage specific to Clojure, or to all languages that have macros? It seems like a pretty bizarre repurposing of a word that already has a very different meaning, and I wonder how widespread it is. Are we too late to stop it?
- mikeash 12y agoIt applies universally and you're probably decades too late to stop it. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/macrology.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/macrology.html
- e12e 12y agoWell, it's the use of macros to avoid having to write code that has the characteristics of macrology. If nothing else, it's sort of strangely recursive, like perhaps many "complex macros" are...