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> Aren't macros breaking the homocionicity of the lisps?

No. How would that be the case?

> And making maintenance more difficult

If used poorly, sure; the same is true of most features of most languages.

> (aren't you re-inventing a new language with macros?)

You are extending the existing language with them, much as you are when using a language with user-definable functions rather than only builtins.



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