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Macros in the wild 6 months ago

From Aleksandr Pasechnik to ~rabbits/uxn

Hi Friends!

Reading through some of the big programs like Left, it seems like macros
don’t really get used much. They are featured pretty prominently in the
first days of the tutorial but then fade away.

Are macros a non-canonical way to write uxntal? Am I missing the
programs that use them more? Is there something about their performance
or ergonomics that make them less desirable?

I would have thought that they would make more "self-documenting" for
smaller bits of logic, as an extension to the way subroutines do it
for larger chunks. But I also haven't written much code yet and maybe
I'm bringing patterns from other language into uxntal that don't