[nohat00]

> "these transformers were never exposed a la carte, instead being encapsulated by the macrology of reducers."

What does 'macrology' mean in this context? Is this a common usage? Or a novel application of a word that ordinarily means "long and tedious talk without much substance"

[prospero]

It means that reducers were some macro sugar atop the underlying mechanism described in the post. See https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...

[nohat00]

... 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?

[e12e]

Well, 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...

[mikeash]

It applies universally and you're probably decades too late to stop it. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/macrology.html