I have not yet had the time to investigate source filters to my liking (its on my list), but it seems like you have the full power of Perl available to you at compile time to munge the code in any way you see fit. Could some one give me the 50,000 ft overview of why Lisp macros are easier/stronger/faster/better? Is it a matter of syntatic sugar, or is there a deeper principle involved. (OK, my initial guess is that you'd have to include a full perl parser in your source filter to have a truly flexible macro system.)

In reply to Macros v. Source Filter was: Lisp to Perl compilation by sleepingsquirrel
in thread Lisp to Perl compilation by hhdave

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