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It's so completely trivial to generate examples of things that Lisp macros can do that Haskell's laziness cannot achieve, it muddies the subject. Try implementing lambda-case or anything written in template-haskell in laziness: you cannot. That's where Lisp macros shine. :-)


It's also where Template Haskell shines.




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