[heartofgold]

I do agree that you should prefer functions over macros. The rule of thumb I’ve heard is only use macros if they are absolutely necessary.

But having that option is better than not having the option at all IMHO.

[dkersten]

Absolutely, I even mentioned some cases where I felt they were used to great effect. Having said that, though, in my experience, they do cause an “just build it with macros” attitude. For example, the issues I mentioned with core.async will likely never get fixed as doing so would require compiler/runtime support which is highly unlikely to happen.