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Asked: 2026-05-17T23:29:56+00:00

In Common LISP you can do the following (macro lambda (x) (list (quote car)

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In Common LISP you can do the following

(macro lambda (x) (list (quote car) (list (quote cdr) x)))

It looks like this is not possible (an anonymous macro) in Clojure.

  1. Is this true?
  2. Why was this left out?
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  1. Editorial Team

    There is some macrolet (or other things) in clojure.contrib.macro-utils. However it smells a little like a hack to me. Inclusion in clojure.core is on the TODO radar, but doesn’t have high priority at the moment.

    EDIT: See also here http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/letmacro.

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